CfP: CMC-Corpora 2019: 7th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora
Beißwenger, Michael, Prof. Dr.
Call for papers
7th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC-Corpora 2019)
https://cmccorpora19.sciencesconf.org/
9 – 10 September 2019
Cergy-Pontoise, France (Paris area)
'CMC-Corpora 2019' is the 7th edition of an annual conference series dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing and exploitation of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media for research in the humanities. 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.
The general conference series' website is https://sites.google.com/site/cmccorpora/.
The 7th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora will be held in Cergy-Pontoise (Paris Seine University, http://www.universiteparisseine.fr/), France, from 9-10 September 2019. It will be hosted by the Digital Humanities Institute (IDHN, https://www.u-cergy.fr/fr/laboratoires/idhn.html) of the University of Cergy-Pontoise, a federative structure created in May 2018 fostering projects that merge the computer sciences and the social sciences and humanities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of interest of the conference are listed hereafter, but this list is not exhaustive:
1) Corpus-based linguistic analysis of CMC:
o Pragmatic analysis of CMC
o Sociolinguistic analysis of CMC
o Discourse analysis and CMC
o Multimodal analysis of CMC
o Analysis of multilinguality and language contact in CMC
o Analysis of CMC in learning and teaching contexts
2) Development of CMC corpora:
o Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
o Open data for research on CMC: legal and ethical issues
o Annotation of CMC corpora
o Multimodal corpora
3) Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC:
o Normalization
o PoS Tagging
o Lemmatization
o Syntactic parsing
o Named-entity recognition
o Automatic identification linguistic patterns in CMC corpora
4) Applications of CMC corpora beyond linguistics - e.g. in the fields of:
o Analysis of political discourse
o Heritage and creation
o Sensory discourse analysis (food, wine, coffee)
o Media and communication
o Hate speech analysis/detection
o Games and online gaming
o Blockchain analysis
o etc.
TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes presented above.
Contributions should be anonymized and submitted via the online conference system, and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee.
For talks, we request short papers (2-4 pages) in English, following the template that you can download for MSWord: https://cmccorpora19.sciencesconf.org/data/template_word.docx or for LaTeX: https://cmccorpora19.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/template_latex.zip. Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference in a 20 minutes talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Accepted short papers will be published in online proceedings before the conference. After the conference, there will be an open call for extended papers to be published in a scientific monograph.
For poster presentations or software/corpus demonstrations, we request abstracts in English (max. 500 words, bibliographical references not included). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their poster and/or give their demonstration during the poster session, which will be opened by one-minute ‘teaser talks’. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the book of abstracts. The poster session will especially address researchers who are preparing an MA or PhD thesis to present their (ongoing) work.
IMPORTANT DATES
Date conference: 9-10 September 2019
Deadline submissions: 1 May 2019
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2019
Deadline registration: 15 August 2019
Organizing committee (CMC-corpora 2019)
Julien Longhi (IDHN, AGORA lab, Paris Seine University, France, https://www.u-cergy.fr/fr/_plugins/mypage/mypage/content/jlonghi.html)
Claudia Marinica (IDHN, ETIS lab, Paris Seine University, France, https://perso-etis.ensea.fr/marinica/)
Zakarya Després (IDHN, France)
Laurene Renaut (AGORA lab, France)
Olivier Belin (IDHN, LT2D lab, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Boris Borzic (IDHN, ETIS lab, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Abdelouafi El Otmani (AGORA lab, ETIS lab, France)
Manon Cassier (AGORA lab, France)
International steering committee (conference series)
Michael Beißwenger (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, https://www.uni-due.de/germanistik/beisswenger/)
Darja Fišer (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia, http://lojze.lugos.si/darja/)
Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland, http://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/)
Contact
Chairs
Julien Longhi (IDHN, AGORA lab, Paris Seine University, France)
Claudia Marinica (IDHN, ETIS lab, Paris Seine University, France)
Co-chairs
Michael Beißwenger (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland)
Members
- Markus Bieswanger (Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany)
- Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
- Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Jožef Stefan Institute)
- Aivars Glaznieks (EuRac Research, Italy)
- Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)
- Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Gudrun Ledegen (U. Rennes 2, France)
- Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany)
- Céline Poudat (U. Nice, France)
- Muge Satar (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
- Stefania Spina (University for Foreigners, Italy)
- Egon W. Stemle (EuRac Research, Italy)
- Angelika Storrer (Universitaet Mannheim, Germany)
- Reinhild Vanderkerckhove (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University, Netherlands)