The seventeenth edition of AELINCO’s International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2026) will be held at the Autonomous University of Madrid in June 2026. The conference is organised locally by the Computational Linguistics Laboratory (LLI-UAM) of the Department of General Linguistics and Modern Languages of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Founded in 1988, the LLI-UAM is one of the oldest laboratories in the country in the field of computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. Its founding milestone was the compilation of the Reference Spoken Corpus of Contemporary Spanish (CORLEC) in 1990-92, followed by multiple oral and written corpora, such as C-ORAL-ROM and the UAM Spanish Treebank. Recently, a bilingual Spanish-English corpus of financial texts, FinT-esp, has been compiled in collaboration with the UCREL team at Lancaster.

This edition of CILC will have as its theme ‘Origins, present and perspectives of corpus linguistics’. The aim is to integrate, from an evolutionary perspective, the initial contributions of the first researchers in the field with current achievements and future projections. In our opinion, this is the most comprehensive way to appreciate the evolution of the discipline, both in terms of data acquisition, registration and classification, and in the development of computational tools to manage it and, consequently, with advances in the empirical analysis of texts. We also encourage participants to submit their work in any linguistic register, without language restrictions. The multilingual, multimodal and international nature of the conferences organised by AELINCO is their very essence.