AI and LLMs dominate Day 1 at ICAME47

ICAME47 had a wonderful start today, with 5 parallel workshops that attracted tremendous interest among the participants. As the conference theme itself is ‘A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI,’ workshop papers on the use of AI and LLMs in corpus linguistics saw great turnouts. The workshop on “Corpus and Computational Linguistics meet Fake News, Mis- and Disinformation and LLMs” drew particular attention, with papers exploring ‘stance expressions’ in AI-generated versus human-written fake news, whether LLMs can be deceived into trusting disinformation, and the use of LLM agents to test interventions in online echo chambers. Equally well attended was “Data Management, Corpora and AI,” featuring talks that included fifty years of the Oxford Text Archive, Automatic Speech Recognition and the annotation of large multimodal corpora. Workshops on “ICE Corpora in the Age of AI” and “A Confluence of Languages through Corpus-based Contrastive Research in the Age of AI” rounded off a stimulating first day. We look forward to the remaining days of the conference!