Di Nunzio, Giorgio, and C. Poletto (2016). ‘A love hate relation for big data in linguistics: present issues and future possibilities’, ACHs Proceedings (position paper). Abstract: When the size of a dataset becomes so massive that its manipulation and management present significant challenges, we are facing one of the many problems of the so-called Big Data paradigm which requires new studies and interpretation methods. The availability of large text collections for the research field of Linguistics has increased significantly in the last years. This rapid development has gone Hand in hand with an expansion of the scope of the theories and collaborations with e.g. historical linguistics, dialectologists, sociolinguists, and psycholinguists. However, large linguistic databases may be problematic in terms of representativeness and accuracy of the data. In this paper, we introduce some of the issues which have been raised in recent workshops and conferences