12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) 4-5 September 2025, University of Bayreuth, Germany
The 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September, hosted by the Department of German (Applied) Linguistics.
Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST
The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, 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 (Evert 2022), social media phenomena and communicative interactions with Artificial Intelligence as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploring CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures.
According to McEnery & Brookes (2024), “Corpus Linguistics with its methodological orientation towards the empirical analysis of language based on large text collections, has the potential to offer significant tools for addressing real-world problems across various social science domains, including climate change, criminology, healthcare and policy making.” In addition, “research on computer-mediated-communication enables the monitoring of accessibility, inclusion as well as the digital divide” (Fábián & Trost 2024). We would like to encourage therefore submissions also on CMC with a focus on diversity with different diversity dimensions for inclusion and other social benefits.
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 (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds.
Keynotes
Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University)
Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
We propose the following topics for the 12th conference:
- 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
- PoS tagging
- Lemmatization
- Syntactic parsing
- CMC for the benefit of digital societies
- Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies
- 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 CM studies across different languages
The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of:
- Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations
- Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations
Local organizing committee:
- Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science)
- Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau)
Scientific chairs:
- Dr. Steven Coats (University Oulu)
- Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth)
- Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University)
- Prof. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/U. of Passau)
- Prof. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp)
- Dr. Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)
Submission and review
Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers are invited to 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 or early-stage research 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 contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for oneor more special issue journal or a volume publication.
Instructions for authors
All submissions are to be written in English. Short papers for oral presentations should be 2 to 4 pages in length, and should not exceed 6 pages, including references. Abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words. All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool).
Templates
Submission templates for MS Word and LaTeX are provided on the conference’s homepage (https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/).
Important dates
- Platform opening for short paper and abstract submussion: 17th February 2025
- Deadline paper/abstract submission:15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST
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