Reflections to wrap up. 🌊
The final day at ICAME47 brought things full circle. Saturday morning kicked off with four parallel sessions spanning work in progress and full papers – from recent changes of taboo words like ‘bloody hell’ to the pressing question of whether language creativity will diminish in the age of AI-generated news content.
Questions like these set the perfect stage for our final plenary. Natalia Levshina took us on a collective reflection: what actually is AI? Should we use it for corpus annotation, and if so, at what cost? Her take? It’s LLMs we’re working with, not AI – and while they can be a powerful ally in corpus annotation, they always come at a cost. She closed with a set of best practices to help navigate that tradeoff. The audience was quick to extend the conversation, showing that this is a debate far from over.
We finally wrapped up with the Annual General Meeting and closing ceremony, welcoming three new members to the ICAME board and re-electing Patricia Ronan as Chair. 🎉 Congrats!
And then it was just us – the team. Grateful for everything learned, everyone met, and every moment that made ICAME47 what it was. 💙 Thanks to everyone who made this happen and joined the flow!
