Call for Participation

The goal of the event is to give a practical introduction into the annotation of language data from genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media using the formats of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). In an introductory section participants will learn about the general architecture of TEI encoding schemas and about rules for the creation of so-called customizations which allow for extending the use of TEI with textual genres and in domains which are not yet covered by the current version of the TEI guidelines. Examples for TEI customizations are the representation schemas for CMC/social media genres developed in the TEI special interest group “computer-mediated communication”.

The EmpiriST 2015 shared task aims to encourage the developers of NLP applications to adapt their tools and resources for the processing of written German discourse in genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) - such as chats, forums, wiki talk pages, tweets, blog comments, social networks, SMS and WhatsApp dialogues - as well as monological web pages - such as personal or professional blogs, Wikipedia articles, academic sites, etc.