Conveners
Keynote: With Bots Like These, Who Needs Dictionaries?
- Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Keynote: Beyond the Entry: The Evolution of Historical Lexicography at the Oxford English Dictionary
- Kate Wild (OUP)
Keynote: Polysemy: Operationalization, Emergence, Perception, and the Human in the Loop?
- Andreas Baumann (University of Vienna)
Keynote: Dictionaries as Pipelines: Lexicographic Work at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences
- Ana Salgado (FLUP – University of Porto)
Keynote: Large Language Models, Symbolic Meaning Representations and Ontologies: Perspectives and Questions
- Jan Hajič (Charles University)
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Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)29/09/2026, 15:00
Four years after the public launch of ChatGPT, Generative AI has entered many domains, both private and professional, and it is not going away. As anticipated in a prescient presentation at eLex 2019 (The Sintra variations), AI bots have begun to compete with dictionaries as reference tools for language-related tasks. Yet despite the pervasiveness of this emerging technology, dictionaries...
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Kate Wild (OUP)30/09/2026, 11:30
As the Oxford English Dictionary approaches the centenary of the completion of its first edition, this talk reflects on how the practice and possibilities of historical lexicography have changed over the past century. The first edition of the OED was produced letter by letter and entry by entry, culminating in the publication of its final volume in 1928. Alphabetical order is no longer a...
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Andreas Baumann (University of Vienna)01/10/2026, 11:30
In lexica of natural languages, polysemy is the rule rather than the exception. Understanding why it is so prevalent—given that the presence of multiple senses for a single form, from a purely semiotic point of view, constitutes ambiguity—and how it emerges is central to lexicology. Addressing this question, of course, requires proper operationalization of polysemy in the first place. A...
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Ana Salgado (FLUP – University of Porto)02/10/2026, 11:30
This keynote reframes dictionary-making as the design of a living, governed pipeline: a system that turns linguistic evidence into publishable lexical knowledge while keeping editorial decisions traceable and revisable. Drawing on current work at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences across a portfolio of initiatives, it shows how this pipeline supports complementary goals: a continuously updated...
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Jan Hajič (Charles University Prague)03/10/2026, 11:30
In the talk, I will present the basics of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the status of the European LLM developments, in particular the OpenEuroLLM project that aims to develop open, multilingual foundational models in Europe and its challenges. I will then move on to summarise some recent developments on the other side of the research spectrum: symbolic meaning representations and latest...
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