26.1198, Calls: Applied Linguistics/France

Tue Mar 3 22:29:39 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1198. Tue Mar 03 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1198, Calls: Applied Linguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:29:30
From: Ciara Wigham [ciara.wigham at univ-lyon2.fr]
Subject: International Research Days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities

Full Title: International Research Days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities 
Short Title: IRDCMC 

Date: 23-Oct-2015 - 24-Oct-2015
Location: Rennes, France 
Contact Person: Ciara Wigham
Meeting Email: ciara.wigham at univ-lyon2.fr
Web Site: http://ird-cmc-rennes.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The first international research days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities will be held in Rennes, France on 23-24 October 2015 and will focus on communication and interactions stemming from networks such as the Internet or telecommunications, as well as mono and multimodal, synchronous and asynchronous communications. The focus of the IRC will encompasses different CMC genres. These include, but are not limited to, discussion forums, email, SMS, text chat, wiki discussions, discussions in multimodal and/or 3D environments.

The aim of the IRDs is to bring together researchers who have collected CMC data and who wish to organize and share them for research purposes. The IRDs will focus on the process of buidling CMC corpora including annotation and analysis processes as well as the  questions of ethics and rights raised by publishing CMC corpora as open data.

Call for Papers:

We invite researchers who are concerned with the analysis of various types of CMC data and corpora for linguistic or applied linguistic purposes to submit paper presentations.

Topics of Interest (Not limited to):

The IRDs will have three thematic streams:

1) Development of CMC corpora
Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
Open data for research on CMC: questions of ethics and rights
One or several models of CMC genres (e.g. extension of the TEI model, etc.)
Multimodal corpora

2) Annotations and analysis
Discourse and dialog analysis of online discussions: chat, forums, SMS, wikipedia discussions, social network exchanges, blogs, newsgroups, etc.
Study of social networks through their communication: informal, professional, learning or other communities
Contrastive analyses of specific CMC genres between several languages communities (e.g. languages in contact)
Interaction analysis in online learning situations
Multimodality in interactions

3) Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to CMC
Tagging and Parsing CMC texts
Dealing with abbreviations and typos
Dealing with morphosyntactic, lexical, ... variations (e.g. : in corpus produced by deaf scripters)

Papers can be submitted in either English or French. The language in which you submit your abstract should be the language in which you will present if your paper is accepted. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee.

Abstracts should be between 500 and 1000 words in length (excluding references). They should be submitted at http://ird-cmc-rennes.sciencesconf.org/user/submit before 15 May 2015. Authors will be notified of outcomes by 15 July 2015.

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