Call for papers

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.

The organising committee encourages the submission of (extended) abstracts (500-600 words, excluding title,  keywords, references and short bio) 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: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lexespgplsi2024

(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
  • Deadline extension for the submission of abstracts: February 1, 2024
  • Notification of Acceptance: March, 2024.
  • Early bird registration (March 15 – April 15)
  • Regular registration (April 16 – May 1)
  • Conference: May 9-10, 2024

Registration

Early bird registration

(March 15 – April 15)

Regular registration 

(April 16 – May 1)

Speakers

AEDEAN, AESLA, AELFE and SEPLN members

100 euros

120 euros

AEDEAN, AESLA, AELFE and SEPLN non-members/ others

140 euros

170 euros

Students

70 euros

110 euros

Attendees

AEDEAN, AESLA, AELFE and SEPLN members

80 euros

100 euros

AEDEAN, AESLA, AELFE and SEPLN non-members/others

120 euros

150 euros

Students

50 euros

90 euros

Organising 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)
  • Ekaterina Sinyashina (Deparment of English Philology, University of Alicante)
  • Chelo Vargas-Sierra (IULMA, University of Alicante)

Scientific Committee

  • Isabel Balteiro (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • José Ignacio Abreu Salas (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • Mirela Alhasani (Epoka University)
  • Moisés Almela Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia)
  • Ana Bocanegra Valle (Universidad de Cádiz)
  • Miguel Ángel Campos (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • Alba Bonet Jover (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • Pascual Cantos Gómez (Universidad de Murcia)
  • María Luisa Carrió-Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
  • Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University)
  • Isabel Espinosa Zaragoza (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
  • Denis Jamet (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
  • Elena Lloret (Universidad de Alicante) 
  • Paula López Rúa (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
  • Silvia Molina Plaza (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Rafael Muñoz Guillena (GPLSI, University of Alicante)
  • Alexander Onysko (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt)
  • Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
  • Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante)
  • Javier Pérez Guerra (Universidad de Vigo)
  • Pascual Francisco Pérez Paredes (Universidad de Murcia)
  • Sara Piccioni (Università degli Studi «G. d’Annunzio» Chieti-Pescara)
  • Gianluca Pontrandolfo (Università degli Studi di Trieste)
  • Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University)
  • Chelo Vargas-Sierra (Universidad de Alicante)

The composition of our scientific committee is still being finalised.

Organising institutions

Collaborating institutions and sponsors