Foreword to the NeoTerm 2025 Proceedings

The European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI, COST Action 22126)1 organized the first edition of the International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management (NeoTerm 2025)2, held on June 18th, 2025, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The event took place at the Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center and was co-located with the 4th International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT 2025)3, which followed on June 19-20. The workshop brought together researchers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines – terminology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and information science – fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue around one of the most dynamic aspects of language: the creation and management of new terms. The central aim of NeoTerm 2025 was to explore the challenges and opportunities involved in collecting, describing, processing, and representing newly coined terms in language resources. The workshop welcomed a number of different perspectives, encouraging contributions that addressed both practical applications and theoretical reflections on neology