SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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January 2026 Visiting Scholar at the Computational Corpus Linguistics (Prof. Stephanie Evert) , Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation (CoCoLex), (Drirctor Prof. Stephanie Evert) , Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), Germany.
[Invited by Dr.-Ing. Besim Kabashi (website)]
• Project PhrasNeoLex – STSM short-term stay funded by the COST Action ENEOLI (European Network on Lexical Innovation) .
[Project President: Giovanni Luca Tallarico; Vice-President: Rute Costa].
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01/2025 – 12/2026 (2 years) Coordinator and Funded by the international project “Local Innovations and International Advances in Intelligent Lexicography” [智能辞书编撰的国际前沿与本土创新 ] (Project Number: H20250649, duration: January 2025 – December 2026, 2 years) , supported by the "National Program for Experts in Scientific and Technological Innovation" of the People's Republic of China and School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University, China[Project Leader: GENG Yundong]
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09 / 2025 Visiting Scholar at the OLST (Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte) laboratory, Montreal, Canada. [Director of the OLST laboratory: François Lareau; Recommender: Prof. Alain Polguère] • Projet Bilingual FR–ZH prototype of phraseological neologisms (2015-2025) annotated “Sens-Texte” - STSM Short-term stay funded by the COST Action ENEOLI (European Network on Lexical Inovation) project [Project President: Giovanni Luca Tallarico; Projet Vice President : Rute Costa]. (The completion of this task has been temporarily postponed, pending the issuance of the visa.)
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01/2023 – 12/2024 (2 years) Coordinator and Funded by the international project Chinese and European Digital Lexicography (Project Number: G2023157010L), Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China & Huazhong University, China. [Project Leader: GENG Yundong]
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2023 Outstanding Paper Award First Prize (selected from 84 articles) at the 15th International Conference on Bilingual Lexicography, Guangzhou, organized by the Chinese Lexicographical Society Bilingual Dictionary Committee and the Center for Lexicographical Research, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. View the certificate
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2023 Finalist of the competition My Thesis in 3 Minutes, in Beijing, China, co-organized by the French Embassy in Beijing and Beijing Normal University, ChinaView the certificate
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2020–2022 Funded by the HYPA digital dictionary project, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region – University of La Rochelle, France [Project Leader: Pierre-Henry DE BRUYN]
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2019– 2020 (18 months) Funded by the HELD-Initiative d'excellence (IDEX) digital pedagogical project, Université Grenoble Alpes, France [Project Leader: Marie DELACROIX]
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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29 September 2026 – CHEN Lian & KABASHI Besim, Co-organization of the International Workshop Phraseo-MWE 2026: Multi-word Expressions and Phraseology, within EURALEX XXII, Vienna, Austria. workshop website
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16-17 July 2026 GENG Yundong & CHEN Lian, co-organization of International Conference New Perspectives in Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (NPCL² 2026), School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University, China. website of international conference
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2024-2026 GENG Yundong & CHEN Lian, International Seminar within the framework of Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (China, France) See our website
4) October 2025 See the announcement • Guest Speaker: Alain Polguère • Topic: Lexicography of lexical networks: why and how 3) March/2025 See the announcement • Guest Speaker: Speakers (in order of appearance): Giovanni TALLARICO, John HUMBLEY, Ana SALGADO, David LINDEMANN, Rute COSTA, Margarida RAMOS, Jelena KALLAS, Kristina KOPPEL, Kris HEYLEN, Ilan KERNERMAN See the announcement • Topic: « Multilingual Lexicography in the ENEOLI Network: Challenges and Collaborative Solutions » 2) 15/11/2024 See the announcement • Guest Speaker: JAKUBÍČEK Miloš Sketch Engine - Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o. & Masaryk University in Brno • Topic: « New Technology in Digital Lexicography and Sketch Engine » 1) 08/11/2024 See the announcement • Guest Speaker: Professor PRUVOST Jean, (LT2D-Centre Jean Pruvost, Cergy Paris University) • Topic: « French Lexicography »
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10-12 June 2026 – CHEN Lian & KABASHI Besim, Co-organization of the International conference ANLEA , Orléans, France. website
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20-22 November 2025 co-organization of the international conference "Orality in All Its Forms Across the World's Languages: Linguistic, Literary, and Sociocultural Chanlleges" View the call for papers online
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8-10 July 2025 co-organization of the 38th East Asian Linguistics Days / 38th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics View the call for papers online
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5-6/06/2025 Communication Manager participating in the organization of the international conference "Phonetic Remediation, Allophone Corpora, and AI-Assisted Didactics", See the call for papers online See the call for papers online
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12-14/03/2025 CHEN Lian, DAO Huy Linh, DO-HURINVILLE Danh-Thành, International Conference “Interdisciplinary Approach to Phraseological Units (PU) in the Languages of the World: Linguistics - NLP & AI - Translation - Literature”. 12, 13, 14, 15 March 2025 INALCO - Paris See the call for papers online
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24-27 October 2024 GENG Yundong & CHEN Lian, “PL & LTL 2024: The 9th International Symposium on Pedagogical Lexicography and L2 Teaching and Learning - Lexicography and Knowledge Services in the Age of AIGC”, funded by the project Project “Digital Lexicography in China and Europe: Status Quo and Future Directions” (Project Number: G2023157010L) . See the call for papers online, 24-27 Octobre 2024, Wuhan, Chine
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15/08/2024 (in preparation) CHEN Lian & GENG Yundong, Symposium “Innovating Digital Lexicography in the Era of Media Convergence”. AILA 21st World Congress (2024). See the call for papers, 11-16 August 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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18/07/2023 CHEN Lian, Symposium “Phraseology in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics”, 20th World Congress, AILA, Lyon. 17-21 July 2023.See the call for papers
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2021-2023 DE BRUYN Pierre-Henry (MCF and HDR), PASCAL Catherine (MCF and HDR) and CHEN Lian, Organizers of Weekly Research Seminars on Language and Discourse, D2iA, La Rochelle University.
SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
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Since 2024: Reviewer committee of the Cahiers de l'AFPC
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Since 2021: Vice-President for Academic Science of the Association HYPAquky.
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2016-2017 Doctoral Co-representative at the Habiter le Monde laboratory (EA 4287) - University of Amiens.
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International conference EUROPHRAS: Adaptation and Adaptability in Phraseography, International conference, in collaboration with EUROPHRAS , Ca’ Foscari (Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice), the main seat of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in the historical center of the island| 📅 18-20/11/2026 Conference website
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Workshop Phraseo-MWE 2026 at EURALEX XXII: “1st Workshop on Multi-word Expressions and Phraseology: Corpus-based and Computer-processed” , EURALEX XXII 📍 Vienna, Austria | 📅 29 September 2026 Conference website
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Conference: « the 8th Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology », within Euralex, September 29 - October 3, 2026, , Vienna, Austria Conference website
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Conference: « Les représentations genrées en période de crise et de mutations historiques », Tunis, 3-4-5 décembre 2026 , Conference website
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Conference: « EN COLLABORATION SUR LA COOPÉRATION : RECHERCHES EN SCIENCES DU LANGAGE DANS LES ÉQUIPES FRANCO-POLONAISES », 9 et 10 juillet 2026, , Paris, France Conference website
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Conference: Nouvelle brachylogie & intelligence artificielle, Paris, France, 22–23 janvier 2026
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2026 Review Committee Member for the International Conference: Intelligence artificielle, un levier pour l’analyse linguistique et la didactique des langues International Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 16–17 avril 2026
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2025 Review Committee of for the 8th Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology , within the Euralex, 29-September, 2026, Viennea Austria
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2025 Review Committee of for the NPCL² 2026 New Perspectives in Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (NPCL² 2026)《From Data to Dictionaries》, School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Agricultural University, China, Wuhan, China
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2025 Review Committee for the Theme NLP & AI at the 38th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics (JLAO 38) , July 8–10, 2025, Paris, France.
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2025 Review Committee of the 7th Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology，held in conjunction with Elex 2025 in Bled, Slovenia, on November 20.
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2025 Member of the scientific committee for the international conference Orality in All Its Forms Across the World's Languages: Linguistic, Literary, and Sociocultural Challenges 20-22 Nov 2025 Sousse (Tunisia)
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2025 Reviewer for 15th International Conference in Historical Lexicography and Lexicology 25-27 June 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
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2025 Scientific Committee for the international conference Remédiation phonétique, corpus d’allophones et didactique assistée par l’intelligence artificielle (5-6 juin 2025), Université d’Orléans, France. (5-6 June 2025), University of Orléans, France.
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2024 Scientific Committee for the international conference PHRASEOPRAG (Sapporo, 1-3 August 2025), Japan.
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2024 Review Committee for the Interdisciplinary approaches to phraseological units (PUs) in world languages: Linguistics - NLP & AI - Translation - Literature , March 12-14 2025 INALCO, Paris (France)
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2024 Scientific Committee for the 9th International Conference on Pedagogical Lexicography, Teaching and Learning of L2: Lexicography and Knowledge Services in the Age of CGIA , 24-27 October 2024 Wuhan, China
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2023 Scientific Committee for the international conference AILA 21st World Congress (2024), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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2022 Scientific Committee for the international conference 20th World Congress, AILA,< Lyon. 17-21 July 2023, France.
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International Journal of Lexicography Asialex Cogent Arts & Humanities AFPC Journal of Nation-States and Area Studies Lexique (n° 37) ELA
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01/07/2024 Topic: Comparative Study of Fixed Expressions in the French and Algerian Press - Case Study of the Newspapers "Le Parisien" and "Le Soir d'Algérie" - University of Franche-Comté, Faculty of Language, Humanities and Social Sciences
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2021-2022 Creation of a network of digital pedagogy referents (24 TD outside teaching) - Department of Applied Foreign Languages, University of La Rochelle
• Digital Pedagogy Referents: Mr. Peter RAWLINGSON (PRCE) and Miss Lian CHEN
• Objectives: 1) The production of digital pedagogical objects (tools, activities, resources) integrated into a library of disciplinary activities, shared with the entire community. 2) The facilitation of established training sessions, by peers, for the use and configuration of these objects.
• Role: Pedagogical design of one or more activities on Moodle / Intervention with the teaching team for training or demonstration / Participation in meetings between referents / Preparation of a report – summary of actions.
• Pedagogical Cafés:
1) 25/03/2022 Virtual pedagogical cafés of EU-CONEXUS (in English). See the report
Topic: Using Moodle for distance/hybrid learning: a shared experience