14th International Global Wordnet Conference
Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 1-4, 2027

The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the 14th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2027), to be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 1 to 4 February, 2026. The GWC2027 conference will be held under the auspices of the Global WordNet Association, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Important information about registration and participation for GWC2027 will be incrementally added to the conference website: https://cltl.github.io/GWC2027/

We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. This year’s special theme is language documentation: how can wordnets be used to support language documentation around the world. As such, we would like to invite submissions on this special. We hope this will foster collaboration and cross-pollination between the both fields.

Conference Topics
Lexical semantics and meaning representation

Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations
Proposed new relations
Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency statistics
Word, sense, and context embeddings
Necessity and completeness issues
Ontology and wordnet
Lexical semantics of emotions and other lexical fields of interest for lexical typology (e.g. body parts, colors, motion verbs, etc.)
Wordnets and other modalities
Wordnets and other theoretical frameworks for modelling lexical semantics
Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to wordnet-style meaning representation

Architecture of lexical databases

Language independent and language dependent components
Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (e.g., CLARIN, ELG, ELRA, etc.)
Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD)

Tools and methods for wordnet development

User and data entry interfaces
Methods for constructing, extending, and enriching wordnets
Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources
Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with large language models
Methods for wordnet development specific for under-resourced languages

Applications of wordnet

Word sense disambiguation
Text generation
Commonsense reasoning
Machine translation
Information extraction and retrieval
Document structuring and categorization
Text classification
Automatic hyperlinking
Language teaching
Psycholinguistic applications
Embeddings and pretrained language models
Probing large language models

Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools

Best practices for wordnet maintenance, standardization, and distribution
Evaluation metrics for wordnet tools and resources
Interoperability across wordnets and wordnet tools
Licensing and legal considerations for wordnets distribution
APIs and other web services for accessing wordnets
Strategies for community involvement in wordnet standardization

Language documentation and wordnets

Building wordnets for endangered, indigenous, and minority languages
Representing culture-specific concepts, folk taxonomies, and indigenous knowledge systems through wordnets
Integration of wordnet development with linguistic fieldwork tools (e.g., FLEx, ELAN, SayMore)
Multimodal wordnets: Linking synsets to audio, video, and archival field recordings
Wordnets as resources for language revitalization and community-based teaching
Community-driven wordnet creation and participatory lexicography
Overcoming data scarcity in wordnet construction for documented languages
Ethical considerations, data sovereignty, and open access in endangered language wordnets

Submissions should fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references):

Long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation
Short papers: 5 pages max, 15 minute presentation
Project reports: 5 pages max, 10 minute presentation
Demonstrations: 5 pages max, with up to 3 additional pages for screenshots or images, 20 minute presentation

Submissions must be anonymized, and any identifying information must be removed. Authors should indicate their preferred submission category; however, the final category of acceptance may be adjusted by the organising and scientific committees (e.g., if need be, a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper). At least one author from each paper must register and present the paper in person in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

To enhance replicability and transparency, authors are encouraged to share the data and code used in their research, whenever possible in an anonymized form. We recommend exploring data repositories that support anonymization techniques and open-source code hosting platforms like GitHub.

Camera-ready and final papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only.

Paper submissions must adhere to the official ACL style templates available here for LaTeX and Word. Please also follow the general paper formatting guidelines established by the “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors should not modify these style-sheet files or use templates designed for other conferences.

Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2027
Important Dates

New Paper Submission Deadline: October 16, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: November 27, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027
Conference Dates: February 1-4, 2025
Final Paper Submission for Proceedings: February 28, 2027

⏰ The deadline timezone is Anywhere on Earth