5th International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today
Short Title: MDTT 2026
Theme: Design, representation formats and management systems

Date: 25-Jun-2026 - 26-Jun-2026
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Contact: Federica Vezzani
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://mdtt2026.dei.unipd.it/en/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Translation

Submission Deadline: 19-Dec-2025

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource.

In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, terminography, computational terminology, specialized lexicography, computational linguistics, and NLP. The goal is to share methodological perspectives on design approaches, representation formats, and management systems for digital terminology as represented in terminology resources.

The conference is organized around the following areas:
- Analysis of the information needs of future users of terminology resources
- Assessment of structural design approaches for terminological data collections
- Study of terminological metadata and data representation formats
- Methods for validating the ergonomics of a resource
- Methods for populating a resource

Main Topics:
- Terminology Resource Design
- Terminology Resource Implementation
- User Information Needs
- Specialized Translation
- Specialized Lexicography
- Technical Communication
- Terminological Standards and Standardisation
- Terminological Management Systems
- Multilingualism
- Linguistic Linked Open Data
- Semantic Web
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Organization
- Ontologies
- FAIR Principles
- Open Science
- Usability and Evaluation of Terminological Tools
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
- Large Language Models
- Machine Learning for Terminology Extraction
- Metadata and Data Management and Curation
- Terminological Data Quality
- Digital Humanities
- Collaborative Terminology Management
- Pedagogical Aspects of Terminology Management

Submission Format:
We invite research papers describing original ideas on the listed topics and/or on other fundamental aspects of digital terminology.
Papers must be at least 5 pages in range, including references, tables, and figures.
Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process. Therefore, we invite all authors to anonymize their papers.
Non-anonymized papers will be desk-rejected.
The languages of the papers can be English, French, and Croatian.
Papers must be in the CEUR-ART single-column style.

Templates:
- Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
- Latex and MS Word offline templates: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

Authors must submit their papers via CMT Microsoft at the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MDTT2026
Each proposal will be sent to two anonymous reviewers chosen among the members of the scientific committee.
The accepted papers will be published on the online open-access platform CEUR-WS. Proceedings published with CEUR-WS are indexed in Scopus.
It is mandatory that at least one author of each accepted paper registers for the conference to present the work and have the paper published in the proceedings.

Post-Conference Selected Papers Publications:
Authors of the accepted contributions to the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper for an international journal or a volume. More information will be announced during the conference.

Key Dates:
The provisional agenda of the conference is:
- December 19, 2025: deadline for submitting paper proposals
- March 5, 2026: notification to the authors
- April 26, 2026: deadline for submitting the camera-ready version of the paper
- May 8, 2026: publication of provisional program
- June 25-26, 2026: conference