From Nov. 26 to 27, 2022, the 5th CLIC conference was successfully held in the School of Foreign Languages of SJTU. The theme of the conference was thoughts and techniques. The conference was held online, attracting more than 800 participants. Professor Zhen Fengchao hosted the opening ceremony of the conference.

In the opening ceremony, Professor Yang Huizhong addressed a speech in which he mainly explained the mutual dependence and enhancement between thoughts and techniques in corpus linguistics and speculated the future of the corpus linguistics in China. Then professor Liang Maocheng, the chairman of CLIC made a welcome speech in which he firstly expressed gratitude to SJTU for holding this conference and secondly talked about the opportunities and challenges of corpus linguistics. Professor Chang Hui, the director of the School of Foreign Languages of SJTU, on behalf of the organizer, welcomed all the participants. He introduced the historical glory and the contemporary strength of corpus linguistics in SJTU, and then presided over the unveiling ceremony for Research Center for Corpus and Data Science. 

The conference had two sessions, namely keynote speech sessions and breakout sessions. Five well-known corpus linguists at home and abroad made keynote speeches, namely Corpus Approaches to Discourse Studies: Methodologies, Challenges and Prospects by Professor Wei Naixing from Beihang University, Textual Data Science for Corpus Linguistic Exploration of Textual Objects and their Paraphrases by Professor Li Wenzhong from Zhejiang Gongshang University, A Multi-dimensional Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Association Measures in Collocation Extraction by Professor Deng Yaochen from Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Corpus Linguistics in the Digital Age by Professor Michaela Mahlberg from Birmingham University, and Why Discourse is not an Object of Science by Professor Wolfgang Teubert from Birmingham University.

There were seven breakout sessions altogether, covering a wide range of research topics such as corpus and language studies, corpus and discourse analysis, corpus and contrastive studies, corpus and translation studies, corpus stylistics, etc. The participants were from more than 50 different universities.