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The 6^th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora (short name: CMC-corpora2018) will be held in Antwerp, Belgium on 17-18 September 2018 and will focus on the collection, analysis and processing of mono- and multimodal, synchronous and asynchronous communication. The focus will encompass different genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC). 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 the CLiPS research center of the University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/clips/).

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the below list of topics. Contributions should be anonymized and submitted via EasyChair, and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee.

Short papers (for oral presentations)

For talks, we request short papers (2-4 pages) in English, following the Word or Latex template which you can download on the conference website (click here to visit the website). Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference in a 20 minute 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 special issue of European Journal of Applied Linguistics (EuJAL), to appear in 2019.

Abstracts (for poster presentations and demos)

For poster presentations (reserved for early stage research) 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.

List of Topics

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
   • …

Committees

Program Committee

• Chairs

  • Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

• Co-chairs

  • Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Ciara R. Wigham (LRL, University of Clermont Auvergne, France)

• Members

  • Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland)
  • Daria Dayter (University of Basel, Switzerland)
  • Orphée De Clercq (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  • Aivars Glaznieks (EuRac Research, Italy)
  • Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)
  • Veronique Hoste (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Gilles Jacobs (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Julien Longhi (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
  • Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany)
  • Lieve Macken (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Maja Miličević (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
  • Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Muge Satar (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
  • Stefania Spina (University for Foreigners, Italy)
  • Egon W. Stemle (EuRac Research, Italy)
  • Angelika Storrer (Universitaet Mannheim, Germany)
  • Hans van Halteren (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Cynthia Van Hee (Ghent University, Belgium)

Organizing committee

• Local Organizing Committee

  • Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

• International Steering Committee

  • Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Ciara R. Wigham (LRL, University of Clermont Auvergne, France)

Venue

The conference will be held at the city campus of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Important dates

Some important dates for contributors are:

• 1^st May: submission deadline
• 20^th June: notification of acceptance
• 15^th August: submission of camera-ready version
• 17^th & 18^th September: conference

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Lisa Hilte: lisa.hilte@uantwerpen.be