Call for Papers (Post-Conference Monograph)

After a very suc­cess­ful con­fer­ence on Com­puter­-­Me­di­ated Com­mu­nic­a­tion and Social Media Cor­pora in Bolzano, Italy in Octo­ber 2017 (cmccorpora17) we are pre­par­ing a post-­con­fer­ence ­mono­graph to be pub­lished by Cler­mont Auvergne Uni­ver­sity Pub­lish­ing House, France in the fall of 2018 as part of their Lin­guist­ics collection Cahiers du Labor­atoire de Recher­che sur le Langage. An open-ac­cess ver­sion will also be made available.

We invite unpub­lished ori­ginal work focus­ing on the col­lec­tion, ana­lysis and ­pro­cessing of com­puter­-­me­di­ated com­mu­nic­a­tion, such as exchanges on social media (Face­book, Twit­ter, etc.), forum posts, news com­ments, wiki dis­cus­sions and blog entries as well as e-mail, SMS, What­s­App, You­Tube and dis­cus­sions in mul­timodal envir­on­ments. Authors who did not present at the con­fer­ence are also welcome.

Top­ics of interest

• Devel­op­ment of CMC corpora
• Build­ing CMC cor­pora: from data col­lec­tion to publication
• Open data for research on CMC: ques­tions of eth­ics and rights
• Annota­tion of CMC gen­res: rep­res­ent­a­tion of CMC gen­res, annota­tion of lin­guistic phe­nom­ena, metadata
• Mul­timodal corpora
• Ana­lysis of CMC corpora
• Soci­o­lin­guistic stud­ies of CMC
• Dis­course ana­lysis of CMC
• Lin­guistic char­ac­ter­ist­ics of CMC
• Mul­timodal aspects of CMC
• Lan­guage in con­tact and code-switch­ing in CMC
• CMC in lan­guage learn­ing & teaching
• Nat­ural Lan­guage Pro­cessing of CMC
• Normalization
• PoS Tagging
• Lemmatization
• Syn­tactic parsing
• Named-entity recognition

Sub­mis­sion format

• The fore­seen length of book chapters is 8,000 words.
• A format­ting tem­plate and style instruc­tions can be found here. 

Sub­mis­sion procedure

• Sub­mis­sions should be sent by email to linguistics@eurac.edu.
• Sub­mis­sions will be reviewed by two reviewers. 

Import­ant dates