Multilingual Digital Terminology Today

Design, representation formats and management systems

1–2 July 2027, Bolzano / Bozen, Italy

6th international conference on
“Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems”


MDTT 2027 will be an onsite event

The working languages are English and French

We are happy to announce that the DETECH 2027 challenge
is a co-located event on June 30 2027 in Bolzano / Bozen.

Conference theme

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 sixth 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:


The provisional agenda of the conference is (all deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere On Earth):

Topics for submissions include but are not limited to

  • Terminology Resource Design
  • Terminology Resource Implementation
  • User Information Needs
  • Specialized Translation
  • Specialized Lexicography
  • Technical Communication
  • Terminological Standards and Standardisation
  • Terminology 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

Submissions

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 and French.

Papers must be in the CEUR-ART single-column style.

Templates:


Authors must submit their papers via CMT Microsoft at the following link MDTT 2027.


The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.


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 Publication

Authors of the accepted contributions to the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper for a journal or a volume. More information will be announced during the conference.

Important dates

  • 18 December 2026
  • Paper submission
    deadline
  • 26 February 2027
  • Paper review
    deadline
  • 5 March 2027
  • Paper notification
    to authors
  • 9 April 2027
  • Camera-ready paper
    submission

General Chairs

Elena Chiocchetti — Eurac Research, Italy
Natascia Ralli — Eurac Research, Italy
Federica Vezzani — Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio — Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Program Chairs

TBA

Local Organization Chairs

Elena Chiocchetti — Eurac Research, Italy
Natascia Ralli — Eurac Research, Italy

Proceedings Chair

TBA

Program Committee

TBA

Conference Venue

The 6th International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" MDTT 2027 will be hosted at Eurac Research.
Address: Viale Druso / Drususallee, 1, 39100 Bolzano / Bozen, Italy


Call for Sponsorships

We offer three levels of sponsorship as described in the packages below. We will work with individual sponsors to help tailor their sponsorship needs to support the events, services or functions of greatest interest to them. The conference organizers are also happy to discuss alternative opportunities to best suit your needs. If you have any creative or interactive ideas of activity we would be interested to talk to you about how we can incorporate them into a personalized package. All sponsorship levels are quoted in euro. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions or suggestions for the conference and the engagement of attendees with the sponsors. You can send an email to the official email of the conference, mdtt2027@eurac.edu. Thank you very much in advance for your attention and your support!

  • Silver Sponsor (300 Euro)
    • Special thanks during the opening and closing of the conference.
    • Logo and link to the sponsor's page on MDTT 2027 website.
    • Post-conference sponsorship report.
    • Conference attendance (coffee breaks and lunches included) for one sponsor delegate (any additional delegate will have a 50% discount on the industry registration fee).
  • Gold Sponsor (500 Euro)
    • Projection of logos in virtual rooms/waiting rooms/physical rooms before technical sessions.
    • Promotional items in (virtual and physical) conference bags (coupon, job posts, brochure).
    • + All the items included in Silver sponsor package.
  • Platinum Sponsor (1000 Euro)
    • Ten minute presentation in a dedicated session to sponsors, and a 2-minute video to share on social media.
    • Sponsor Profile in CEUR-WS proceedings (1 page).
    • + All the items included in the Gold sponsor package.

Previous Conferences

The 1st International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" (MDTT 2022) was held in Padova, Italy You can find the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference here.

The 2nd International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" (MDTT 2023) was held in Lisbon, Portugal. You can find the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference here.

The 3rd International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" (MDTT 2024) was held in Granada, Spain. You can find the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference here.

The 4th International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" (MDTT 2025) was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. You can find the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference here.

The 5th International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems" (MDTT 2026) was held in Zadar, Croatia. You can find the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference here.

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