Origins, present and perspectives of corpus linguistics
Keynote Speakers
Francisco Marcos Marín
University of Texas San Antonio
Francisco Marcos Marín is Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas San Antonio, recipient of the Humboldt Research Award (Germany), expert for the European Research Council, and co-director of ADMYTE, the Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts. He holds doctorates from the Complutense University of Madrid in Religious Sciences (2023) and Romance Philology (1969). From 1999 to 2001, he served as Academic Director of the Instituto Cervantes.
The author or co-author of over fifty books and three hundred articles in academic journals, he also contributes to Latin American and European media and publishes poetry and short stories.
António Branco
University of Lisbon
Professor at the University of Lisbon, his research focuses on AI and Natural Language Processing. He is Director of NLX – Natural Language and Speech Group, a research group pioneering open-access, open-source generative AI language models for the Portuguese language, including Albertina (encoders), Gervásio (decoders) and Serafim (sentence embedders).
He is also Director of PORTULAN CLARIN, a Research Infrastructure for Language Sciences and Technology, which forms part of the Portuguese National Network of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Interest and serves as the national node of the European infrastructure CLARIN ERIC. He is Honorary President of the Language Resources Association ELRA, having previously served as its President from 2018 to 2022.
Inés Fernández-Ordóñez
Autonomous University of Madrid
Professor of Spanish Language at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (where she holds the seat P) and the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. She specialises in Spanish dialectology, both contemporary and historical, with a particular interest in grammatical variation. In this area, she directs the Oral and Sound Corpus of Rural Spanish, which she has built between 1990 and 2025 with the collaboration of successive generations of students and colleagues. She also participates in the digital edition of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula.
Her research further encompasses the critical editing of medieval texts and the study of historical and chronicle texts from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula, particularly those produced under the patronage of Alfonso X the Wise. A third line of work is devoted to the thought, legacy and scholarly school of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, as part of which she has directed the digital edition of his linguistic archive.
M. Dolores Jiménez López
University of Rovira i Virgili
M. Dolores Jiménez López is a Senior Lecturer at the Departament de Filologies Romàniques of the University of Rovira i Virgili and principal investigator of the Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC). She holds a doctorate in Linguistics from the same university and has built an international research career at leading European institutions, including the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Dipartimento di Informatica at the University of Pisa, where she worked as a Marie Curie Research Fellow.
Her research focuses on mathematical linguistics, spanning formal models applied to natural language, grammar systems, linguistic complexity, and fuzzy models in the description of linguistic phenomena. She has participated in over 20 research and transfer projects, led four contracts funded by the European Commission, and has authored more than two hundred publications in journals, monographic volumes and international conferences.
17th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, CILC 2026 — Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Autonomous University of Madrid