36.1767, Confs: Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1767, Confs: Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era (Germany)

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Date: 04-Jun-2025
From: Tobias Bernaisch [corpuslinguisticsandai at uni-giessen.de]
Subject: Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era


Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era

Date: 07-May-2026 - 09-May-2026
Location: Rauischholzhausen, Germany

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-Jul-2025

The corpus-linguistic sections of the Department of English and the
Department of German at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen,
Germany, jointly host the conference ‘Corpus Linguistics in the AI
Era’, which will take place in-person only at Schloss
Rauischholzhausen from May 07 to May 09 2026. Approximately 40 papers,
which we plan to spread over two sections and frame by plenary talks,
can be presented. The language of the conference will be English.
The conference seeks to establish and widely explore the relations
through which corpus-linguistic theory and practice connect with
principles and applications of artificial intelligence – with a
particular emphasis on large language models. Corpus linguistics and
artificial intelligence as manifested in large language models are
both rooted in and dedicated to the analysis of large amounts of texts
and thus appear naturally connected. Yet, in comparison to the rapid
integration of large language models in the field of computational
linguistics, corpus linguists – at least as far as their output at
relevant conferences and in dedicated journals is concerned – have so
far been more hesitant in adopting large language models in their
research. This relative hesitance of corpus linguistics regarding AI
may be motivated by theoretical as well as practical considerations,
which is why the conference provides a platform to articulate and
discuss the integration of AI into corpus linguistics from various
angles that can relate, but are not limited to discussions of the
following research questions:
Corpus-linguistic theory in the light of AI:
 - Should AI-generated texts be featured in linguistic corpora?
 - Are adjustments in corpus compilation – especially with established
families of corpora that have followed comparable designs for decades
– necessary and/or desirable under consideration of the increase of
AI-generated texts?
 - What are opportunities and threats of AI for corpus linguistics?
 - How can the replicability of corpus-linguistic studies be ensured
when AI as a black box takes on central roles in the research process?
Corpus-linguistic practice in the light of AI:
 - How can AI help in the compilation of spoken and written data?
 - Can AI replace and potentially outperform traditional
corpus-linguistic software such as AntConc or WordSmith?
 - How reliably can AI perform often labour-intensive tasks of data
annotation (e. g. part-of-speech tagging or parsing, but also
qualitative classification)?
 - To what extent can AI help with statistically modelling carefully
annotated corpus-linguistic datasets?
 - How do earlier, non-generative AI approaches in corpus linguistics
– often based on neural networks – compare to today’s use of large
language models and how might the two approaches complement each
other?
 - To what extent can large language models help in the use of
programmable NLP pipelines such as NLTK, Stanza or spaCy?
Abstract Submission and Deadline:
Please submit your abstract with explicit research questions (max. 300
words excluding references) at  corpuslinguisticsandai at uni-giessen.de
until July 31 2025.
Plenary Speakers:
The plenary speakers of the conference and the titles of their talks
will be announced in due course.
Conference Venue:
The conference will take place in Rauischholzhausen, a unique
conference site in the federal state of Hesse in Germany. A large
castle built in the 19th century surrounded by a beautiful large park,
Rauischholzhausen is a perfect venue for any scientific conference.
All meals will be served in the castle and the rooms are located in
the castle and in an adjacent guest house. Frankfurt is a one-hour
train ride away from Marburg, from where we will operate shuttle
services (20 min.) to the venue. For further information, please
visit:
https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/org/admin/dez/e/3/wirtschaftsverwaltung/schloss
Costs:
The total costs for conference participation covering room charges for
two nights and all meals will approximately amount to 250–300€
depending on the room category you book.
Contact and Organizing Committee:
Feel free to reach out with any questions you may have via
corpuslinguisticsandai at uni-giessen.de. The organizing committee of the
conference consists of Prof. Dr. Jana Gamper, Prof. Dr. Mathilde
Hennig, Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber, Dr. Tobias Bernaisch and Dr. Volker
Emmrich.



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