The Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology series (GWLN) has established itself as an international forum for lexicographers, scholars, tool developers, and other practitioners interested in how new words and new senses emerge, are detected, evaluated as candidates for inclusion and described in lexicographic resources. Since its inauguration, the workshop has taken place in seven consecutive years in conjunction with annual conferences of the continental lexicography associations, including DSNA (2019), Euralex (2020 online, and 2022), Australex (2021), Asialex (2023), Afrilex (2024), as well as at eLex (2025). Each edition has brought together participants from diverse linguistic and other traditions to share their experience and exchange perspectives on the challenges, methodologies and processes for combining lexicography and neology. For the eighth iteration, GWLN is supported by funding from the European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI COST Action CA22126) to further strengthen collaboration in Europe and beyond.
The main topic of GWLN-8 is the shifting role of the lexicographer treating neology in the age of artificial
intelligence (AI). While lexicography has always been an early adopter of technological advances in
linguistics, corpus analysis, and dictionary production workflows, recent developments in large and custom language models have deeply altered the ecology of lexical innovation, its description, and the possibilities for lexicographers. Neologisms now emerge and circulate not only through human linguistic communities, but also through AI-mediated content creation, algorithmic feedback loops, and hybrid forms of human-machine discourse. At the same time, AI-based technologies create new opportunities for lexicographers to automate detection pipelines, evaluate usage patterns, and compile entries grounded in different types of linguistic evidence and linked to highly structured lexical knowledge bases. Against this backdrop, the presentations reflect on lexicography’s mediating role between corpus-based empirical evidence, AI-generated content, and the need for reliable, curated and structured lexicographic data that can feed back into and support the emerging hybrid ecosystem of AI-enhanced human communication.
GWLN-8 will be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, on Sep. 29, featuring the CA22126
ENEOLI Session, and including a flash presentation of posters that will be presented at the EURALEX poster session on Sep. 30. Papers will be published in the form of a thematic issue of International Journal of Lexicography.

The program is online on the GWLN webpage and on the Euralex website.