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DETECH 2026
DEfinition and Term Extraction CHallenge 2026

Proceedings of the DEfinition and Term Extraction CHallenge (DETECH 2026)
co-located with the 5th International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today ( MDTT 2026 )

Hybrid Event, Zadar, Croatia, June 24, 2026 .

Edited by

Federica Vezzani ¹
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio ²
Vanessa Bonato ²
Gianmaria Silvello ²

¹ University of Padua, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies , Padua, Italy
² University of Padua, Department of Information Engineering , Padua, Italy

Table of Contents

Preface
Summary: 6 papers were submitted for peer review to this workshop. All 6 papers were accepted for inclusion in this volume.
Overview of the InternationalWorkshop on Definition and Term Extraction Challenge (DETECH) 2026
Federica Vezzani , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio , Vanessa Bonato , Gianmaria Silvello

Adapting TBXTools to automatic terminology extraction with BERT
Gonzalo López-Sánchez , Patricia Morales-Hurtado , Mercè Vàzquez , Albert Morales-Moreno , Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez
A QTT-Informed System for Biomedical Term Extraction and Definition Generation
Diego A. Burgos , Antonio Tamayo Herrera , Giovanni Díaz , Carlos Mario Pérez-Pérez
GutBrainTerm_Extractor: Generative AI for Medical Terminology Extraction in the Gut–Brain Domain
Helena Ortiz Garduño , Esther Castillo Pérez
TermHunter: Neural Biomedical Term Extraction and Ontology-Enhanced Definition Generation with Structured Prompting
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani , Rossella Resi
Description of the LISN system for extracting terms
Thierry Hamon
Defining Concepts, Generating Knowledge: A Structured Review of Terminological Definitions
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio

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