Final CfP & CLARIN workshop - cmccorpora17

[Ciara Wigham]

Final Call for Papers (deadline extended) and information about a Post-conference CLARIN workshop: How to use TEI for the annota­tion of CMC and social media resources: a prac­tical introduction

5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
(cmccorpora17)

http://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/

The 5th con­fer­ence on 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. 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 include a post-conference workshop on using the TEI for annotating CMC and social media resources (5 October). It 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 here:

• MSWord Template (Example document)
• Lib­re-/Open­of­fice Template (Example document)
• LaTeX Package (Example included)

Please sub­mit your paper via the online con­fer­ence system.

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

21st June	Sub­mis­sion deadline
21st July	Noti­fic­a­tion of acceptance
21st August	Sub­mis­sion of cam­er­a-ready version
3rd & 4th October	Conference
5th October	Post-conference workshop (CLARIN tutorial)

Post-conference workshop:
CLARIN Tutorial: How to use TEI for the annota­tion of CMC and social media resources: a prac­tical introduction

October 5th, 2017, 10:30–14:00, Eurac Research, Italy

The goal of the event is to give a prac­tical intro­duc­tion into the annota­tion of lan­guage data from genres of com­puter­-­me­di­ated com­mu­nic­a­tion (CMC) and social media using the formats of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). In an intro­duct­ory sec­tion par­ti­cipants will learn about the gen­eral archi­tec­ture of TEI encod­ing schemas and about rules for the cre­ation of so-c­alled cus­tom­iz­a­tions which allow for extend­ing the use of TEI with tex­tual genres and in domains which are not yet covered by the cur­rent ver­sion of the TEI guidelines. Examples for TEI cus­tom­iz­a­tions are the rep­res­ent­a­tion schemas for CMC/so­cial media genres developed in the TEI spe­cial interest group “com­puter­-­me­di­ated com­mu­nic­a­tion”.

In a hand­s-on ses­sion, par­ti­cipants will learn how to use these cus­tom­iz­a­tions to cre­ate a basic TEI rep­res­ent­a­tion for their own CMC/so­cial media data. For this pur­pose par­ti­cipants may bring samples from their own data/­cor­pora or select a sample from col­lec­tions of Wiki­pe­dia talk pages in sev­eral lan­guages pre­pared by the instruct­ors. Format spe­cific­a­tions for par­ti­cipants’ own data will be announced in advance. For the hand­s-on ses­sion, par­ti­cipants will be asked to bring a laptop com­puter with WLAN and a full or trial license of the oXy­gen XML editor.

The tutorial is funded as a CLARIN User Involvement Event. Registration is free. Details about the tutorial program will be announced via http://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/uievent/.

The tutorial is held by:

Harald Lüngen (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany)
Michael Beißwenger (Universität Duisburg Essen, Germany)
Laura Herzberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)

The event is organized by:

Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Ciara R. Wigham (Uni­versité Cler­mont Auvergne, France)
Egon W. Stemle (Eurac Research, Italy)

Registration

Registration for the conference and for the post-conference workshop will be open as of June 30, 2017. The regis­tra­tion fee for reg­u­lar par­ti­cipants is 75 EUR and includes con­fer­ence mater­i­als, cof­fee breaks, and lunch.

There will be no special registration fee for the workshop.

More information about registration will be announced via
http://cmc-corpora2017.eurac.edu/registration/.

Sci­entific and Organizing Committee of cmccorpora17

Chair

Ciara R. Wigham (Uni­versité Cler­mont Auvergne, France)

Co-Chairs

Michael Beißwenger (Uni­versity of Duis­bur­g-Essen, Germany)

Darja Fišer (Uni­versity of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Members

Andrea Abel (Eurac Research, Italy)

Steven Coats (Uni­versity of Oulu, Finland)

Daria Dayter (Uni­versity of Basel, Switzerland)

Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Insti­tute, Slovenia)

Jennifer Frey (Uni­versità di Bologna, Italy)

Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research, Italy)

Axel Herold (Ber­lin-Branden­bur­gis­che Akademie der Wis­senschaften, Germany)

Dawn Knight (Cardiff Uni­versity, United Kingdom)

Julien Longhi (Uni­versité de Cergy-­Pon­toise, France)

Harald Lüngen (In­sti­tut für Deutsche Sprac­he, Germany)

Maja Miličević (Uni­versity of Bel­grade, Serbia)

María-Teresa Ortego-Antón (Uni­versity of Val­lad­olid, Spain)

Céline Poudat (Uni­versity of Nice Sophia Antipol­is, France)

Muge Satar (New­castle Uni­versity, United Kingdom)

Stefania Spina (Uni­versity for For­eign­ers, Italy)

Egon W. Stemle (Eurac Research, Italy)

Angelika Storrer (Uni­versit­aet Man­nheim, Germany)

 

Organizing Committee

Egon W. Stemle (Eurac Research, Italy)

Daniela Gasser (Eurac Research, Italy)