CMC-Corpora 2018: 6th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora

‘CMC-corpora 2018’ was the 6th edition of an annual conference series dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing and exploitation of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media for research in the humanities. The conference brought 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.

The 6th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora was held in Antwerp, Belgium on 17-18 September 2018. It was hosted by the CLiPS research center (Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics) at the University of Antwerp.