32.482, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands and Online
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Subject: 32.482, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands and Online
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:10:21
From: Iris Hendrickx [i.hendrickx at let.ru.nl]
Subject: 8th edition of the Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora
Full Title: 8th edition of the Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora
Short Title: CMC-corpora2021
Date: 28-Oct-2021 - 29-Oct-2021
Location: Nijmegen (hybrid format), Netherlands
Contact Person: Iris Hendrickx
Meeting Email: i.hendrickx at let.ru.nl
Web Site: http://applejack.science.ru.nl/cmc2021/
Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 13-Jun-2021
Meeting Description:
We gladly announce that the 8th edition of the Conference on Computer-Mediated
Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora that will take place in Nijmegen,
the Netherlands will be held on 28 and 29 October 2021. Because of the global
COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will take place in hybrid form: you can
choose to attend online or in person.
CMC-corpora 2021 is the 8th edition of an annual conference series dedicated
to the development, analysis, and processing of corpora of computer-mediated
communication and social media for research in the humanities. The conference
brings together language-centred research on CMC and social media in
linguistics, communication sciences, media studies, and social sciences with
research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics,
language and text technology, and machine learning.
Call for Papers:
We welcome submissions broadly related to CMC and corpora, including (but not
limited to):
- Development of CMC and social media corpora
- Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
- Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues
- Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata
- Multimodal corpora
- Big data corpora
- Linguistic analysis of CMC and social media corpora
- Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
- Discourse analysis of CMC
- Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC
- Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC
- Organizational use of CMC
- Webcare in CMC
- CMC in education
- Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC and social media data
- Normalization
- PoS tagging
- Lemmatization
- Syntactic parsing
- Text mining of CMC content
- Information extraction from social media
- Automatic summarization of CMC content
- Author profiling
Important dates:
- Deadline paper/abstract submission: Sunday 13 June 2021, 23:59 CET
- Notification of acceptance: Friday 16 July 2021
- Deadline revised paper submission: Sunday 12 September 2021, 23:59 CET
- Deadline registration: idem (Sunday 12 September 2021, 23:59 CET)
- Conference: Thursday 28 – Friday 29 October 2021
Submission:
We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus
demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned above. We
invite two types of submissions:
- short papers (2-4 pages, following the existing template) for oral
presentations
- abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations
Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three
members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers can present
their work at the conference (30 minute timeslots: 20 minute talks, followed
by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their
work in progress, early-stage research, software/corpus demonstrations during
the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will
be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with
the best short papers will be invited to submit extended papers for a special
issue journal or a volume publication.
Instructions for authors:
All submissions have to be written in English. The short papers for oral
presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should adhere to
the template which you can download here for MSWord (40 kB) or here for LaTeX
(260 kB). The abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words,
bibliographical references not included. All contributions will be collected
through the online platform EasyChair connected to the conference website
(https://easychair.org/cfp/CMCCorpora2021).
If you have any questions or remarks, please feel free to contact the local
organizing team via i.hendrickx at let.ru.nl
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