Event schedule

October 02

Pre-Conference Evening
Pre-Conference Gathering
Place: Muflone Rosa

Pre-Conference Gathering at Muflone Rosa.

October 03

CMC-Conference
Registration
Place: Eurac Research main entrance area

On-site registration will be available from 8.00 to 8.30 for additional 15 EUR.

Welcome Address
Room: Conference Hall
Keynote: Think Global, Write Local – Patterns of Writing Dialect on SNS
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Ciara Wigham
  • Aivars Glaznieks Eurac Research, Italy

Coffee Break
Place: Foyer 1-2-3

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

The Impact of WhatsApp on Dutch Youths’ School Writing
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Steven Coats
  • Lieke Verheijen and Wilbert Spooren

Modeling Non-Standard Language Use in Adolescents' CMC: The Impact and Interaction of Age, Gender and Education
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Steven Coats
  • Lisa Hilte, Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Walter Daelemans

Investigating Interaction Signs across Genres, Modes and Languages: The Example of OKAY
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Steven Coats
  • Laura Herzberg and Angelika Storrer

Anonymisation of the Dortmund Chat Corpus 2.1
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Steven Coats
  • Harald Lüngen, Michael Beißwenger, Laura Herzberg and Cathrin Pichler

Lunch Break
Place: Foyer 1-2-3

We will start in the Eurac Research garden and take a group photo.

Emoticons as multifunctional and pragmatic Resources: a corpus-based Study on Twitter
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Laura Herzberg
  • Stefania Spina

Corpus-Based Analysis of Demonyms in Slovene Twitter
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Laura Herzberg
  • Taja Kuzman and Darja Fišer

European Language Ecology and Bilingualism with English on Twitter
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Laura Herzberg
  • Steven Coats

Book Launch
Room: Conference Hall
Coffee Break
Place: Foyer 1-2-3

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Developing a protocol for collecting data in Higher Education: assessing natural language metadata for a Databank of Oral Teletandem Interactions
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Darja Fišer
  • Paola Leone

The #Idéo2017 Platform
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Darja Fišer
  • Julien Longhi, Claudia Marinica, Nader Hassine, Abdulhafiz Alkhouli and Boris Borzic

Social Get-Together
Place: Batznhäusl

Social Get-Together with local dishes and drinks at Batznhäusl.

October 04

CMC-Conference and CLARIN User Involvement Event
Keynote: Small vs. Big Data in Language Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Michael Beißwenger
  • A. Seza Doğruöz Independent Researcher

Connecting Resources: Which Issues Have to be Solved to Integrate CMC Corpora from Heterogeneous Sources and for Different Languages?
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Stefania Spina
  • Michael Beißwenger, Ciara R. Wigham and colleagues

CLARIN Survey of CMC Resources and Tools
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Stefania Spina
  • Darja Fišer Director of User Involvement within CLARIN ERIC

Coffee Break
Place: Foyer 1-2-3

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

“You’re trolling because…” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Harald Lüngen
  • Márton Petykó

Fear and Loathing on Twitter: Attitudes towards Language
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Harald Lüngen
  • Damjan Popič and Darja Fišer

A Comparative Study of Computer-mediated and Spoken Conversations from Pakistani and U.S. English using Multidimensional Analysis
Room: Conference Hall Chair: Harald Lüngen
  • Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber

Closing
Room: Conference Hall
Tutorial: CLARIN UI Event
Room: Seminar 8

The tutorial gives a practical introduction into the annotation of language data from genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media using TEI.

  • Harald Lüngen Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany

  • Michael Beißwenger University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  • Laura Herzberg University of Mannheim, Germany

Tutorial: CLARIN UI Event - Introduction to text encoding in the TEI (TEI-P5) [Free]
Room: Seminar 8

The tutorial gives a practical introduction into the annotation of language data from genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media using TEI.

  • Harald Lüngen Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany

  • Michael Beißwenger University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Coffee Break
Place: Eurac Café

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Tutorial: CLARIN UI Event - Hands-on session: Using TEI for representing CMC/social media data [Free]
Room: Seminar 8

The tutorial gives a practical introduction into the annotation of language data from genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media using TEI.

  • Harald Lüngen Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany

  • Laura Herzberg University of Mannheim, Germany

LCR Pre-Conference Workshop and Reception in honour of Sylviane Granger

Features a series of invited speakers whose work has greatly contributed to the development of Learner Corpus Research. Read more about the event.
Link to the registration: €15 for the LCR 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop and Reception (without attending the LCR 2017 Conference).
Link to more information about LCR registration fees and policy.