Call for Papers: 12th CMC-Corpora Conference
The 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) is accepting submissions until May 15, 2025. Topics include CMC corpora development, NLP, and more.
The 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) is set to take place at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on September 4-5, 2025. This conference brings together researchers from linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences to explore the latest developments in CMC and social media research.
Keynote speakers include Gavin Brookes from Lancaster University and Stephanie Evert from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Topics of interest for submissions include:
- 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
- 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
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Lemmatization
- Syntactic parsing
- CMC for the benefit of digital societies
- Interdisciplinary research design and methods in CMC
- Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC
- Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences
- Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science
- Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science
- Contrastive CMC studies across different languages
Submissions are due by May 15, 2025, 23:59 CEST. For more information, visit the conference website.
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