34.382, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-382. Tue Jan 31 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.382, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:31:59
From: Louis Cotgrove [cotgrove at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: CMC-Corpora Conference 2023

Full Title: CMC-Corpora Conference 2023 

Date: 14-Sep-2023 - 15-Sep-2023
Location: University of Mannheim, Germany 
Contact Person: Louis Cotgrove
Meeting Email: cmc-corpora2023 at uni-mannheim.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that the 10th edition of the Conference on
Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora (CMC-CORPORA) will be
jointly hosted by Mannheim University and the Leibniz Institute for the German
Language on September 14-15, 2023 in Mannheim, Germany. Save the date!

For more information go to https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/ .

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The Organizers: 

Jutta Bopp, Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Andreas Witt

Call for Papers:

*International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities*

14–15th September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany

The 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the
Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Mannheim, Germany
in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS).
Specialized corpora of the language of CMC and social media are increasingly
vital for the analysis of the “unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in
terms of speakers and settings” in digital contexts, as well as of “language
evolution seen through the lens of user-generated content, which gives access
to a number of variants, socio- and idiolects” (Barbaresi 2019: 29-30).
The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social
media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social
sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational
linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It
features research in which computational methods and tools are used for
language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well
as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting
CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research
infrastructures. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media,
covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups,
forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks
(Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the
communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming
apps, online games and virtual worlds.

We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to:

* Development of CMC corpora / 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
   * Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term)
archiving of social media data

* Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora
   * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
   * Discourse analysis of CMC
   * Linguistic characteristics of CMC
   * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC
   * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC
   * CMC in language education

* Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data
   * Normalization
   * PoS tagging
   * Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation
   * Lemmatization
   * Syntactic parsing
   * Semantic Annotation

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*Important Dates*
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* Abstract submission: 30 April, 23:59 CEST
* Notification of acceptance: Friday, 30 June 2023, 23:59 CEST
* Deadline revised abstract submission: Sunday, 6 August 2023, 23:59 CEST
* Deadline registration for participation: Sunday, 20 August 2023, 23:59 CEST
* Arrival, Get-together: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
* Conference: Thursday 14 - Friday 15 September 2023

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*Submission*
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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, i.e between 800
and 1600 words) 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 time slots: 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.

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