28.4698, FYI: Call for Contributions: Monograph CMC corpora

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:03:04
From: Wigham Ciara [ciara.wigham at uca.fr]
Subject: Call for Contributions: Monograph CMC corpora

 
After a very successful conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and
Social Media Corpora for the in Bolzano (Italy) in October 2017
(https://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/) we are preparing a post-conference
monograph to be published by Clermont Auvergne University Publishing House
(France) in the fall of 2018 as part of their Linguistics collection Cahiers
du Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage. An open-access version will also
be made available.

We invite unpublished original work focusing on the collection, analysis and
processing of computer-mediated communication, such as exchanges on social
media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), forum posts, news comments, wiki discussions
and blog entries as well as e-mail, SMS, WhatsApp, YouTube and discussions in
multimodal environments. 

Authors who did not present at the conference are also welcome to submit
papers.

Topics of interest:

- 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
- 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
- Natural Language Processing of CMC
- Normalization
- PoS Tagging
- Lemmatization
- Syntactic parsing
- Named-entity recognition

Submission format:

- The foreseen length of book chapters is 8,000 words.
- A formatting template can be found here:
https://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/cfp/

Submission procedure

- Submissions should be sent by email: cmc-corpora2017 at eurac.edu
- Submissions will be reviewed by two members of the scientific committee. 

Important dates
- Submission of extended papers: 15 Jan. 2018
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 March 2018
- Submission of revised versions: 15 May 2018
- Expected publication: Autumn 2018

Editors:

Ciara R. Wigham (Université Clermont Auvergne, France)
Egon Stemle (Eurac Research, Italy)

Scientific Committee (to be completed):

Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
A. Seza Doğruöz (Independent Researcher)
Darja Fišer (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia)
Jennifer Frey (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Aivars Glaznieks (EuRac Research, Italy)
Julien Longhi (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany)
Céline Poudat (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
H. Müge Satar (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Stefania Spina University for Foreigners, Italy)
María-Teresa Ortego-Antón (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain)
Angelika Storrer (Universitaet Mannheim, Germany)
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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