CMC2022: 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 28-29, 2022 |
Conference website | https://www.usc.es/en/congresos/cmc2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc20220 |
Submission deadline | May 30, 2022 |
Call for papers
The 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from Wednesday 28 to Thursday 29 September 2022. It will be hosted by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela. In the event that the pandemic situation makes travel difficult or impossible, the conference will take place in a hybrid or remote format.
‘CMC-corpora 2022’ is the 9th 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
- Pragmatics of CMC
- Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC
- Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC
- Organizational use of CMCWebcare 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
- Other applications of text mining and CMC and social media corpora
Important dates
- Deadline for abstract submission: Extended until Monday 30 May 2022, 23:59 CET.
- Notification of acceptance: Friday 17 June 2022
- Deadline for registration: Wednesday 31 August 2022, 23:59 CET
- Conference: Wednesday 28 – Thursday 29 September 2022
Submission
We invite submissions for talks and for posters on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned above. All submitted proposals and the resulting presentations must be written in English, the conference language. All contributions should be submitted through the online platform EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc20220. Two types of submissions are available:
• Paper presentations: abstracts should not exceed 500 words, not including the title and references.
• Posters (for work in progress or early-stage research): abstracts should not exceed 300 words, not including the title and references.
Abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed by two members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference in 30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Posters will be on display in a dedicated area during the two days of the conference. There will also be a special time slot for poster discussion, preceded by a specific session where authors will be able to make a pitch for their posters. Before the start of the conference, a book of abstracts will be published online and made available to participants. After the conference, all paper and poster presenters will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a peer-reviewed special issue of the RiCL journal.
Steering committee:
- Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)
- Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Local organizing committee from the University of Santiago, Spain:
- Mario Cal Varela
- Francisco Javier Fernández Polo
- Ignacio Palacios Martínez
- Lidia Gómez García
- Susana Doval Suárez
- Elsa María González Álvarez
- Paula López Rúa
If you have any questions or comments regarding the conference, please write to: mario.cal@usc.es. Further information at: https://www.usc.es/en/congresos/cmc2022.