Final Call for Papers

5th Con­fer­ence on CMC and Social Media Cor­pora for the Human­it­ies (cmccorpora17)

The 5th con­fer­ence on CMC and Social Media Cor­pora for the Human­it­ies will be held in Bolzan­o/Bozen, Italy on 3-4 Octo­ber 2017 and will focus on the col­lec­tion, ana­lysis and pro­cessing of mono and mul­timod­al, syn­chron­ous and asyn­chron­ous com­mu­nic­a­tions. The focus will encom­pass dif­fer­ent CMC gen­res. These include, but are not lim­ited to, dis­cus­sion for­ums, blogs, news­groups, emails, SMS and What­s­App, text chats, wiki dis­cus­sions, social net­work exchanges (such as Face­book, Twit­ter, Linked­in), dis­cus­sions in mul­timodal and/or 3D envir­on­ments (vir­tual worlds, gam­ing worlds).

The con­fer­ence will bring together research­ers who are inter­ested in the col­lec­tion, organ­iz­a­tion, pro­cessing, ana­lysis and shar­ing of CMC data for research pur­poses. We invite sub­mis­sions on cor­pus ana­lysis of vari­ous types of CMC data for lin­guistic or applied lin­guistic pur­poses and Nat­ural Lan­guage Processing.

The con­fer­ence is hos­ted by Eurac Research and will include a post-­con­fer­ence workshop on using the TEI for annot­at­ing CMC and social media resources (4 Octo­ber). It will be fol­lowed by the 4th Learner Cor­pus Research Conference and its pre­ced­ing con­fer­ence work­shop, which will both be held at the same venue from 4-7 October.

Top­ics of interest

1. 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
2. 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
3. Nat­ural Lan­guage Pro­cessing of CMC
   • Normalization
   • PoS Tagging
   • Lemmatization
   • Syn­tactic parsing
   • Named-entity recognition

Sub­mis­sion procedure

We invite sub­mis­sions for papers, posters and soft­ware/­cor­pus demon­stra­tions on any topic rel­ev­ant to the above list of themes. For this con­fer­ence, we are request­ing exten­ded abstracts (2-4 pages) in Eng­lish. All abstracts will be peer­-re­viewed by the sci­entific com­mit­tee. All sub­mis­sions should fol­low the tem­plate which you can down­load here:

• MSWord Template (Example document)
• Lib­re-/Open­of­fice Template (Example document)
• LaTeX Package (Example included)

Please sub­mit your paper via the online con­fer­ence sys­tem (EasyChair).

Paper present­a­tions will con­sist of a 20 minute talk fol­lowed by 10 minutes for ques­tions and dis­cus­sion. The poster present­a­tion­and soft­ware/­cor­pus demon­stra­tion ses­sion will be opened with each presen­ter­/­demon­strator giv­ing a one-minute ‘teaser talk.’ Accep­ted papers will be pub­lished in online proceedings before the con­fer­ence. After the con­fer­ence, authors of best-re­viewed papers will be invited to sub­mit exten­ded ver­sions of their papers to be pub­lished in an edited mono­graph to appear in 2018.

Import­ant dates

Post-­con­fer­ence workshop

CLARIN UI Event: How to use TEI for the annota­tion of CMC and social media resources: a prac­tical introduction