ICAME 47 took place from 26–30 May in Koblenz at the University of Koblenz, gathering researchers in corpus linguistics and related computational approaches to language. The conference featured five pre-conference workshops and four plenary talks, covering a wide range of methodological and theoretical topics.
The plenary speakers included Laurence Anthony, Jonathan Culpeper, Jane Stuart-Smith, and Natalia Levshina, each contributing perspectives on corpus methods, sociolinguistics, and computational approaches to language analysis.
The pre-conference workshops addressed several themes: Corpus-based Contrastive Research and AI; Corpus-Linguistic Approaches to Reddit; Fake News, Disinformation and LLMs; ICE Corpora in the Age of AI; and Data Management, Corpora and AI. These sessions focused on the increasing integration of artificial intelligence with corpus-based research, as well as evolving challenges in data design and interpretation.
BAEL participated extensively across the workshop programme, beginning with Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs presenting “Balancing backward comparability and register adequacy: Towards an ICE 2.0 text category design in the age of AI.”
On Day 1, contributions included Bethany Stoddard’s presentation on “BERT for large-scale data filtering and annotation: The dative and benefactive alternations in the written BNC 2014,” as well as Julia Schilling’s work “From Annotation to Automation: Mapping Populist Style through Multidimensional Analysis.”
On Day 3, Lisa-Christine Altendorf presented “Mapping Linguistic Complexity in German Learners’ Written English Productions,” as well as “Fluency across modes: The case of German learners of English,” together with Bethany Stoddard, and Lea Bracke (Uni Bamberg), while Tjorven Halves presented ongoing work on “The Influence of Sociolinguistic Constellations on Variation in Northeast Indian English (WIP).”
Further Day 3 contributions included “Fine-Tuning ASR for Corpus Linguistics: Singapore English” by Steven Coats, Carmelo Alessandro Basile, Cameron Morin, and Robert Fuchs, with Dr. Steven Coats (University of Oulu) and Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs presenting.
On the final day, Mariam Gagua, Lisa Altendorf, Christina Nelson, Philipp Meer, and Robert Fuchs presented “Recent diachronic change in affiliative vocatives in British English: A corpus-based study,” with Mariam Gagua and Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs delivering the talk.
An additional highlight was the participation of our Queen's prize-winning alumna Lara Putensen, who presented her award-winning MA thesis, “Pop Goes Profanity: Vulgarity Trends in English Chart Hits from 2000 to 2024.”
