The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, foreign language teaching and learning, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It features research in which computational methods and tools are used for language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures.

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The 11th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora will be held on Thursday, the 5th and Friday, the 6th of September 2024 at the Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France).

The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, foreign language teaching and learning, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It features research in which computational methods and tools are used for language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds.

We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to:

• Development of CMC corpora / 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
• Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term) archiving of social media data
• Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora
• Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
• Discourse analysis of CMC
• Linguistic characteristics of CMC
• Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC
• Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC
• CMC in language education
• Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data
• Normalization
• PoS tagging
• Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation
• Lemmatization
• Syntactic parsing
• Semantic Annotation
• LLMs and CMC analysis

Important Dates

• Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: Friday, 1st March 2024

• Short paper and abstract submission: Monday, 22th April, 2024,  23:59 CEST

• Notification of acceptance: Monday, 3rd June 2024, 23:59 CEST
• Deadline revised submission: Monday, 17th June 2024, 23:59 CEST
• Arrival, Get-together: Wednesday, 4th September 2024
• Conference: Thursday 5th – Friday 6th September 2024

Submission

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, i.e., between 800 and 1600 words) 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 time slots: 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.

All submissions have to be written in English and have to be anonymised. The short papers for oral presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should adhere to the template which you can download from the links below. The abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words, bibliographical references not included. All contributions will be collected through the START system. (If you do not have any SoftConf account, you need to create one first.)

• The submission of communication proposals will be made on the softconf website : https://softconf.com/n/cmc2024/ 
• All important information about the conference on https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/. 

Template for MSWord (40 kB):

https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/template_word.docx

Template for LaTeX (260 kB):

https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/template_latex.zip

For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at colloque.cmc-2024@univ-cotedazur.fr

We look forward to seeing you there!

The organizing committee

• Céline POUDAT (CORLI, BCL),
• Marie CHANDELIER (BCL),
• Mathilde GUERNUT (CORLI),
• Christophe PARISSE (CORLI),
• Minerva ROJAS (BCL),
• Simona RUGGIA (BCL)

Scientific Committee

(confirmed so far):

• Adrien Barbaresi (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
• Marie Chandelier (Université Côte d'Azur)
• Steven Coats (University of Oulu)
• Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache)
• Orphée De Clercq (Ghent University)
• Susana Doval Suárez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
• Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth)
• Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
• Jennifer-Carmen Frey (European Academy of Bozen)
• Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano)
• Jan Gorisch (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache)
• Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Laura Herzberg (University of Mannheim)
• Mai Hodac (Université de Toulouse)
• Pawel Kamocki (IDS Mannheim)
• Alexander König (CLARIN ERIC)
• Florian Kunneman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache)
• Gudrun Ledegen (Université Rennes 2)
• Els Lefever (Ghent University)
• Julien Longhi (Cergy Paris université)
• Paula López Rúa (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
• Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache)
• Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna)
• Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University)
• Ignacio Palacios Martínez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
• Céline Poudat (Université Côte d'azur)
• Minerva Rojas (Université Côte d'Azur)
• Simona  Ruggia (Université Côte d'Azur)
• Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Angelika Storrer (Universität Mannheim)
• Caroline Tagg (The Open University)
• Ludovic Tanguy (Université de Toulouse)
• Reinhild Vandekerckhove (Universiteit Antwerpen)
• Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)
• Ciara Wigham (Université Clermont Auvergne)