First call for papers
The Fifth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo 2025) will be held at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on September 4 and 5, 2025. The 2025 edition of the workshop will build upon the discussions initiated at DeriMo 2017 (Milan, Italy) on the development of language resources and tools in word-formation research, and subsequently continued at DeriMo 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic), DeriMo 2021 (Nancy, France), and DeriMo 2023 (Dubrovnik, Croatia).
DeriMo 2025 will provide an international platform for the presentation of advancements in existing word-formation resources and for the introduction of recently created ones. A debate is expected on all aspects of the creation of these resources, from technical solutions to linguistic decisions regarding the selection and representation of word-formation processes and complex words. DeriMo 2025 will also explore appropriate tools for resource development, empirical descriptions of derivational processes, and the potential use of word-formation data in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Special attention will be given to how lexical resources can be exploited to investigate theoretical aspects of word formation, and conversely, how current linguistic accounts of word formation can inform the modelling of morphological processes in resources. Presentations of any type of linguistic research into word formation can contribute to the discussion on the use and usability of available resources and tools. Additionally, quantitative methods based on large datasets can help address key research questions in derivational morphology. Linguistic insights into the phenomena described in word-formation resources may indicate directions for future research, whether approached from language-specific, multilingual, cross-linguistic, or typological perspectives.
DeriMo 2025 aims to cover a wide range of topics. Submissions are invited for presentations featuring high-quality, previously unpublished research, both completed and ongoing, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, quantitative or computational. In particular, the topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:
- language resources for word formation in individual languages, or with a multilingual focus;
- representation of word-formation processes in lexical resources (using models based on base-derivative pairs, derivational paradigms, or other representations);
- multiple approaches to statistical and computational modelling of derivational data;
- diversity of information (morphological, semantic, syntactic, etc.) encoded in lexical databases, and enrichment of morphological resources with additional features (e.g. semantic categories in affixation, classification of compounds);
- compiling and uniformizing existing resources, and linking morphological resources with other types of resources;
- data-based linguistic research in any aspect of word-formation (of individual languages, with a contrastive or comparative focus, diachronic perspectives, etc.);
- theoretical accounts of word formation based on quantitative and computational methods.
Proceedings will be published, open-access, in time for the workshop.