ICAME is an international group of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The organization was founded in 1977 in Oslo, Norway, originally under the name of International Computer Archive of Modern English. The first “conference” was a symposium with 37 participants from 10 different countries held in 1979. Since then, the yearly ICAME conferences have grown into much bigger events, welcoming new members and long-term ICAMErs alike.
The sad news have reached us that our colleague Bengt Altenberg has passed away peacefully in the night from December 28 to 29. He will be well known to you as a corpus linguist and an ardent ICAMEr, who attended multiple ICAME conferences up to ICAME 2012 in Leuven.
Anna, Hilde, Markéta and Denisa dedicated their edited volume of papers from ICAME42 to him and Karin Aijmer for their pioneering work on behalf of contrastive corpus linguistics
(https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contrastive-corpus-linguistics-9781350385931/)
Our thoughts are with his family and close friends.
Patricia Ronan, ICAME chair
Next ICAME Conference
ICAME 46, Vilnius University, Lithuania:
17-21 June 2025
The theme chosen for the conference is:
Per Corpora ad Astra: Exploring the Past, Mapping the Future
Venue: Vilnius University
Organisers:
Jolanta Šinkūnienė and team
Further Information: see conference website
ICAME Journal
Access the latest issues of the ICAME Journal:
Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2024
Volume 47, Issue 1, May 2023
For more information, go to the Journal page.