[Commlist] CFP Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora 2021

Call for Papers CMC-corpora 2021

Website: http://applejack.science.ru.nl/cmc2021/ 
<http://applejack.science.ru.nl/cmc2021/>

We gladly announce that the 8th edition of the Conference on 
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora that will 
take place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands will be held on 28 and 29 
October 2021. Because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the conference 
will take place in hybrid form: you can choose to attend online or in 
person.

CMC-corpora 2021 is the 8th edition of an annual conference series 
dedicated to the development, analysis, and processing of corpora of 
computer-mediated communication and social media for research in the 
humanities. The conference brings together language-centred research on 
CMC and social media in linguistics, communication sciences, media 
studies, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of 
corpus and computational linguistics, language and text technology, and 
machine learning.

We welcome submissions broadly related to CMC and corpora, including 
(but not limited to):

   -  Development of CMC and social media corpora
       -  Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
        - Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues
        - Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata
        - Multimodal corpora
        - Big data corpora
  -   Linguistic analysis of CMC and social media corpora
        - Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
        - Discourse analysis of CMC
        - Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC
        - Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC
        - Organizational use of CMC
        - Webcare in CMC
        - CMC in education
   -  Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC and social media data
        - Normalization
        - PoS tagging
        - Lemmatization
         - Syntactic parsing
    - Text mining of CMC content
         - Information extraction from social media
        - Automatic summarization of CMC content
        - Author profiling


Important dates:
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  *   deadline paper/abstract submission: Sunday 13 June 2021, 23:59 CET
  *   notification of acceptance: Friday 16 July 2021
  *   deadline revised paper submission: Sunday 12 September 2021, 
23:59 CET
  *   deadline registration: idem (Sunday 12 September 2021, 23:59 CET)
  *   conference: Thursday 28 – Friday 29 October 2021

Submission
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We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus 
demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned 
above. We invite two types of submissions:

     short papers (2-4 pages, following the existing template) for oral 
presentations
     abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations

Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or 
three members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers 
can present their work at the conference (30 minute timeslots: 20 minute 
talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted 
abstracts can present their work in progress, early-stage research, 
software/corpus demonstrations during the poster session. At the start 
of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online 
proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best short papers 
will be invited to submit extended papers for a special issue journal or 
a volume publication.
Instructions for authors

All submissions have to be written in English. The short papers for oral 
presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should 
adhere to the template which you can download here for MSWord (40 kB) or 
here for LaTeX (260 kB). The abstracts for poster presentations should 
not exceed 300 words, bibliographical references not included. All 
contributions will be collected through the online platform EasyChair 
connected to the conference website).

Organizers
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Steering committee:

     Michael Beißwenger, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
     Steven Coats, University of Oulu, Finland
     Lisa Hilte, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Local organizing committee from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the 
Netherlands:

     Iris Hendrickx
     Lieke Verheijen
     Lidwien van de Wijngaert

Contact
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If you have any questions or remarks, please feel free to contact the 
local organizing team via (i.hendrickx /at/ let.ru.nl) 
<mailto:(i.hendrickx /at/ let.ru.nl)>

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