ICAME47

26-30 May 2026, Koblenz (Germany)

We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is “A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI”.
The academic programme will feature full papers, work-in-progress reports, software demonstrations and invited plenary talks. The social programme will include a welcome reception, a boat trip and a gala dinner. The following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation:

Speaker: Jonathan Culpeper
Affiliation: Lancaster University, England
Title of keynote (provisional):
Corpus-based explorations in Shakespeare’s language and beyond

Speaker: Natalia Levshina
Affiliation: Radboud University, the Netherlands
Title of keynote (provisional):
Uncovering implicit information in a corpus with the help of AI

Speaker: Laurence ANTHONY
Affiliation: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Title of keynote (provisional):
Advancing Corpus Linguistics with Small, Local, and Multimodal AI Language Models

Speaker: Jane Stuart-Smith
Affiliation: University of Glasgow, Scotland
Title of keynote:
will be announced soon