LEXESP – GPLSI 2024 : VII International Conference on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: Computational Linguistics, Corpus linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

VII International Conference on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: Computational Linguistics, Corpus linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.

University of Alicante, 9-10 May 2024

The Lexicology of Languages for Specific Purposes Research Group (LexESP) and the Natural
Language and Information Systems Group (Grupo de Procesamiento del Lenguaje natural y Sistemas
de Información,GPLSI) are pleased to announce the VII International Conference on English and ESP
Lexicology and Lexicography with a special focus on theoretical and applied approaches to lexicology
and lexicography from Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The
Conference will be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) on May 9-10, 2024.
Conference Website: LEXESP – GPLSI 2024

The organising committee encourages the submission of extended abstracts (500-600 words,
excluding title, references and keywords) for papers, round-tables and/or workshops on, amongst
others, any of the following areas:
· Lexis and Corpus Linguistics
· Dictionary compilation, Corpus Linguistics and AI
· Metaphors and AI
· Theoretical and Applied research in Specialized corpora
· Methodologies for building specialised corpora
· Techniques for manual and automatic annotation of corpora
· Standardisation of annotation schemes
· Tool development and evaluation for corpus creation and analysis
· Integration of machine learning techniques in corpus tools
· Ensuring ethical practices in corpus collection and annotation
· Bias and fairness implications in corpus-based research
· Impact of Artificial Intelligence on linguistic uses in specialised contexts
· Building semantic networks and ontologies from large corpora
· Representing and organising lexical meanings computationally
· Case studies demonstrating successful interdisciplinary research in lexical studies
· Large corpora and Automatic Text Simplification
· Fake news and AI
· Linguistics aspects of Natural Language Generation
· Text Summarisation

Abstracts will be submitted at the Easy-chair platform.

The text should be submitted single-spaced. Use Times New Roman (12 points). Place the title at the top and
centre of the page on which the text begins. Capitalise only the first letter of the first word and all other significant
words (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs) as well as proper nouns.

Key Dates:
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 15, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: March, 2024.
Early bird registration (March 15 – April 15)
Late bird registration (April 16 – May 1)
Conference: May 9-10, 2024

Organizing Committee

Isabel Balteiro (Co-Chair, Department of English Philology, University of Alicante)
Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza (Co-Chair, GPLSI and Department of English Philology, University of
Alicante)
Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos (Department of English Philology, University of Alicante)
Marián Aleson (Department of English Philology, University of Alicante)
Alba Bonet Jover (GPLSI, University of Alicante)
Elena Lloret (GPLSI, University of Alicante)
Raquel Martínez Motos (Department of English Philology, University of Alicante)
Rafael Muñoz Guillena (GPLSI, University of Alicante)
Chelo Vargas-Sierra (IULMA, University of Alicante)

Keynote Speakers
To be confirmed