eLex 2025

Session

Keynote

Nov 18, 2025, 9:30 AM

Arnold hall

Conveners

Keynote: Keynote 1

• Špela Arhar Holdt

Keynote: Keynote 2

• Iztok Kosem

Keynote: Keynote 3

• Simon Krek

8. Large language models for lexicography

Marko Robnik-Šikonja

11/18/25, 9:30 AM

Currently, large language models (LLMs) are redefining methodological approaches in many scientific areas, including linguistics and lexicography. LLMs are pretrained on huge text corpora by predicting the next tokens and adapted for human interaction with the instruction following datasets. This does not make them immune to hallucinations and biases, requiring a human-in-the-loop approach. In...

39. LLMs and Lexicography at the Dutch Language Institute

Carole Tiberius, Jesse de Does

11/19/25, 9:00 AM

The Dutch Language Institute (INT) has a long tradition compiling historic and contemporary dictionaries and other types of lexicographic databases, mainly for Dutch but also for some other languages with a relation to Dutch. Lexicographic work at the institute is computer-supported but there is still a great deal of manual work involved. Therefore, INT is exploring how new technologies...

67. We need to talk about data structures in lexicography

Michal Měchura

11/20/25, 9:00 AM

It has been almost half a century since we started “doing” lexicography on computers. Let’s stop for a minute now and take a critical look at the data models we have been using to represent the structure of dictionaries in dictionary writing systems and other software.

In this talk, I will trace the history of lexicographic data modelling from its beginnings as text markup for...