Corpus Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: Interfaces with Languages and Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics (CL), the science that studies language through the analysis of large collections of electronic texts organized as corpora has made great progress in the world and also in Brazil since the first published works appeared, with the introduction of computers into the academic environment in the 1960s. Since then, a growing number of research areas have used CL in their investigations, either as an approach or as a methodology - even beyond the areas of Literature and Linguistics.
Computational Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), is a multidisciplinary field of study that applies computer science to the analysis and understanding of human language. The first published works date back to the 1950s. But, like CL, NLP has grown exponentially in recent decades, as the use of technology has evolved to become present in virtually every sphere of human experience.
The Brazilian Corpus Linguistics Meeting (ELC) had its first edition in 1999, at the University of São Paulo. This year we are celebrating 25 years of its inception! The Brazilian School of Computational Linguistics (EBRALC) emerged a few years later, in 2007, as ELC participants saw a pressing need to expand the computational and technological knowledge of Brazilian researchers working with Corpus Linguistics in the Humanities. Thus, the aim of EBRALC is has always been to offer a selection of practical workshops, for which interested parties should register in due course. The ELC, on the other hand, is a scientific meeting that has maintained a a tradition of not having parallel sessions, so that everyone can attend to all presentations, providing a more fruitful interaction between participants from the various areas involved - an invitation to dialogue and collaboration.
ELC/EBRALC 2024, whose theme is “Corpus Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: Interfaces with Languages and Linguistics”, will take place from October 21 to 24, at the University of Brasilia. Organized by professors from the Institute of Letters, members of the research groups TermiTraDiCo (Corpus-Driven Terminology and Translation) and COMPLETT (Multilingual Corpus for Research in Foreign Languages, Translation and Terminology), and colleagues from various other universities in Brazil, the event is supported by University of Brasilia's Postgraduate Programme in Translation Studies (POSTRAD). The event aims to foster discussions on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on academic training and research in the areas of Languages and Linguistics, with a focus on the role Corpus Linguistics has played and may play in the future in establishing this transdisciplinary dialog.