A love-hate relationship for Big Data and linguistics: Present issues and future possibilities

In this paper, we present an overview of some issues related to the use of Big Data in the area of Linguistics that have been debated in workshops and conferences in the last two years. We also consider some requirements that "big" linguistic databases should have in order to tackle some of these issues; finally, we discuss a set of possible interactive visualization approaches of large datasets that may have an impact in this research field.