Conveners
Specialised & Terminological Lexicography
- Alexander Geyken (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Specialised & Terminological Lexicography
- Rufus H. Gouws (Stellenbosch University)
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Marek Blahuš (Lexical Computing), Miloš Jakubíček (Lexical Computing), Katarína Petreková (Lexical Computing), Yingtian Wu (Lexical Computing)01/10/2026, 09:00
We present an evaluation of a system for automatic drafting of terminological dictionaries using the One-Click Dictionary feature of Sketch Engine. We bootstrapped five small corpora in Arabic, Czech, English, German and Spanish and evaluated the performance of the methodology on these five corpora yielding five terminological dictionaries for five different terminological domains; the system...
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Deepak Solanki (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)01/10/2026, 09:20
Lexicographic practice has often balanced comprehensive coverage with systematic ordering, privileging alphabetical arrangement and encyclopedic completeness over clearly defined user needs. This paper argues that user-oriented specialized dictionaries, supported by corpus-driven and AI-augmented methods, can better serve users who require targeted lexical knowledge rather than exhaustive...
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Barbara Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim), Theresa Kruse (University of Hildesheim), Ulrich Heid (University of Hildesheim)01/10/2026, 16:00
Studies with first-semester mathematics students indicate that after leaving highschool, they understand the subject primarily as a set of calculation rules, i.e. as a ‘toolbox’ (Törner & Grigutsch, 1994; Girnat & Hascher, 2021). However, mathematics as taught at university, as well as any scientific approach to mathematics, should rather be understood as an interconnected system of concepts...
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Martina Bajčić (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law), Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute for the Croatian Language)01/10/2026, 16:30
Definitions play a crucial role in the acquisition, transfer, or translation of specialized knowledge. In the legal profession, precise definitions of complex concepts facilitate seamless knowledge management, application, and interpretation. However, despite growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) for this task, the real-world feasibility and user acceptability of AI-generated legal...
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Riccardo Billero (Free University of Bozen)01/10/2026, 17:00
The emergence of artificial intelligence represents the latest in a series of technological challenges that have periodically reshaped the relationship between human expertise and technological tools. This paper takes as its point of departure the conviction that AI cannot exist, function, or evolve independently of human intelligence; lexicography, as a discipline situated at the intersection...
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