International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English

ICAME is an international organization of linguists and information scientists working with English machine-readable texts. The aim of the organization is to collect and distribute information on English language material available for computer processing and on linguistic research completed or in progress on the material, to compile an archive of English text corpora in machine-readable form, and to make material available to research institutions.

ICAME constitution with supplement.

The archive mentioned in the name resides at (Aksis) at University of Bergen, Norway. This acts as a distribution centre for computerized English-language corpora and corpus-related software.

ICAME publishes the ICAME Journal which appears at least once a year, with articles and information about English computer corpora. There is also an electronic information service.

Conferences, usually in May/June each year, have been arranged since 1979.
Next ICAME Conference in Ascona, Switzerland, May 14-18, 2008 (organized by Andreas Jucker, Zurich).
Previous conferences: Helsinki May 24-28, 2006, Stratford-upon-Avon May 23-27, 2007.

• Online use of ICAME corpora (only for registered users of ICAME CD-ROM)
• ICAME Corpus Collection
• ICAME Corpus Manuals
• Pictures from ICAME Conferences
• ICAME Journal
• Archive of Corpora distributon list
• WWW servers at other (ICAME) sites
• Some useful resources on the Web (programs, texts, texts centres etc.

Bengt Altenberg's ICAME bibliography (not updated any more): Part 2 ( -1989) TXT (59 KB)
Part 3 (1990-98) HTML (115 KB) RTF (145 KB) Word 6 DOC (127 KB)

The current ICAME bibliography (everybody can update this).

	Computer Corpora in English Language Research Edith by Stig Johansson NOK 250,-   Now availible from Aksis

ICAME's Advisory Board consists of Ann Curzan (Ann Arbor), Roberta Facchinetti (Verona), Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara), Sebastian Hoffmann (Lancaster), Marianne Hundt (Heidelberg), Merja Kytö (secretary, Uppsala), Christian Mair (Freiburg), Fanny Meunier (Louvain-la-Neuve), Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen), Junsaka Nakamura (Kyoto), Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki), Nelleke Oostdijk (Nijmegen), Pam Peters (Sydney), Paul Rayson (Lancaster), Antoinette Renouf (chair, UCE, Birmingham), Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Siena).
Honorary members: Henry Kucera, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Matti Rissanen, Jan Svartvik, Jan Aarts.
Knut Hofland is Technical Secretary.