YUMING LI is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. He serves as President of the Chinese Association for Lexicography, Chair of the Language Policy and Planning Committee of the Linguistic Society of China, and was President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2016–2017). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language Strategy Studies. His research interests include theoretical linguistics, grammar, psycholinguistics, and language planning. He has authored over 30 books, such as The Development of Children’s Language, A Study on Quantificational Categories in Chinese, Collected Studies on Grammar, Studies on Language Planning in China, Language Planning in China, and has edited major works including the Global Chinese Dictionary and the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Global Chinese. He has published more than 600 academic papers, translated into Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Japanese, French, English, Russian, Korean, and other languages.

Miloš Jakubíček is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Lexical Computing, a research company working in the area of language technologies, primarily at the intersection of corpus and computational linguistics and computer lexicography. By profession, he is an NLP researcher and software engineer. His research interests are devoted mainly to two fields: effective processing of very large text corpora and the parsing of morphologically rich languages. Since 2008, Miloš has been involved in the development of Lexical Computing’s flagship product, the Sketch Engine corpus management suite. Since 2011, he has been Director of the Czech branch of Lexical Computing leading the local development team of Sketch Engine and he became CEO of Lexical Computing in 2014. Miloš is also a fellow of the NLP Centre at Masaryk University, where his interests lie mainly in morphosyntactic analysis and its practical applications.

VINCENT B. Y. OOI is an Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore. He is Co-Chief Editor of Lexicography: Journal of ASIALEX, Executive Board member of the Asian Association for Lexicography (2023–2025), and serves on the editorial board of Corpora: Corpus-based Language Learning, Language Processing and Linguistics. His research interests include corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, computer-mediated communication, Newer Varieties of English, and applied linguistics. He has published widely on topics such as Englishes in Asia, lexical priming, and corpus applications in lexicography. His works appear in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography, Routledge Handbook of Lexicography, and other major collections, alongside numerous articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He is also the co-editor of several books, including Evolving Identities: The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia, and led the Times-Chambers Essential English Dictionary project.