35.3417, Confs: Scoping Workshop: Corpus linguistics 2040: Which data, which methods, which models?

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Subject: 35.3417, Confs: Scoping Workshop: Corpus linguistics 2040: Which data, which methods, which models?

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Date: 28-Nov-2024
From: Christian Mair [christian.mair at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Scoping Workshop: Corpus linguistics 2040: Which data, which methods, which models?


Scoping workshop: “Corpus linguistics 2040: Which data, which methods,
which models?”
Short Title: FutureCorp

Date: 10-Jul-2025 - 11-Jul-2025
Location: Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim, Germany
Contact: Andreas Witt
Contact Email: futurecorp at ids-mannheim.de
Meeting URL:
https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fi/veranstaltungen/workshop-corpus-linguistics-2040/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Lithuanian (lit)
                     Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Indo-Aryan

Meeting Description:

This two-day event, jointly organised by the English Department of the
University of Freiburg and the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in
Mannheim, is designed as a scoping workshop on the future of corpus
linguistics, highlighting empirical, methodological and conceptual
issues facing our research community. Although the two organising
institutions focus on English and German, corpus linguists working on
other languages are explicitly invited to attend and contribute. We
are convinced that debate across specialisations and language
boundaries will be mutually beneficial.

The study of language structure, variation and change with digital
corpora has moved from the margins to the centre of linguistics over
the past five decades, promoting usage-based models within linguistics
and making (corpus-)linguistics relevant and attractive in the wider
domain of the Digital Humanities. In spite of the overall success,
progress has been uneven in places. For example, all but a handful of
languages are still under-resourced, and even in those boasting rich
corpus-linguistic working environments, specific text-types (e.g.
spontaneous conversation) are under-represented. Recently, corpus
linguistic routines have been disrupted by advances in AI-based text
generation and machine translation. Some challenges are practical,
such as the question of how future corpora should handle data that are
partly or fully machine-generated. Others are conceptual. Today, large
reference corpora of pluricentric languages such as English, German
and Spanish commonly use national standard varieties as a major
ordering principle. By 2040, however, the widespread use of AI-based
language technologies in everyday communication may make national
boundaries less important; automatic algorithms may partly take over
from educated elites as agents of linguistic standardisation. Whatever
future is envisaged for corpus-linguistics, one thing remains clear:
More numerous, more diverse and more complex corpora will also require
more attention to issues of sustainable infrastructure for data
preservation and enrichment. The following four colleagues have agreed
to offer keynotes:
- Mark Davies (Provo UT, USA): “English-Corpora.org: Challenges,
innovation, and sustainability”
- Silvia Bernardini (Bologna, Italy): “Beyond monolingualism:
Challenges and affordances of corpus linguistics for the study of
multilingualism and new forms of translation”
- Michaela Mahlberg (Erlangen, Germany): “Corpus linguistics and
storytelling: Data and connections”
- Ramunė Kasperė (Kaunas, Lithuania): “Corpus construction and
technologisation in the age of AI: Challenges for ‘smaller’ languages“

Bursaries: Funding permitting, we will be able to provide a limited
number of travel grants, awarded on a competitive basis after the
abstract submission deadline, to applicants who are early career
researchers, employed on part-time or short-term contracts or facing
similar challenges. Applications can be submitted during the
registration process.

Organisers:
Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim
Christian Mair, English Department, University of Freiburg

Key dates:
>From 1 Dec. 2024:               Submission of abstracts
16 Feb. 2025:                   Abstract submission deadline
1 March 2025:           Notification of acceptance; registration

For information see the conference website
(https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fi/veranstaltungen/workshop-corpus-linguistics-2040/).
A full programme will be available from 15 March 2025. All inquiries
should be addressed to: futurecorp at ids-mannheim.de



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