28.837, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Subject: 28.837, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:18:54
From: Ciara Wigham [ciara.wigham at uca.fr]
Subject: The 5th Conference CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities

 
Full Title: The 5th Conference CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities 
Short Title: CMC-corpora17 

Date: 03-Oct-2017 - 04-Oct-2017
Location: Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 
Contact Person: Egon Stemle
Meeting Email: cmc-corpora2017 at eurac.edu
Web Site: https://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 5th conference 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. 


Call for Papers:

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 be followed by the 4th
Learner Corpus Research Conference, which will be held at the same venue from
5-7 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 on the website
(https://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/). Please submit your paper via the online
conference system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmccorpora2017).

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes
for questions and discussion. 

The poster presentation and 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:

- 1 June: submission deadline
- 25 July: notification of acceptance
- 25 August: submission of camera-ready version
- 3rd & 4th October: conference




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