Conferences

The 5th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities was held in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 3-4 October 2017 and focused on the collection, analysis and processing of mono and multimodal, synchronous and asynchronous communications. The focus encompassed different CMC genres. These included, but were not limited to, discussion forums, blogs, newsgroups, emails, SMS and WhatsApp, text chats, wiki discussions, social network exchanges (such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin), discussions in multimodal and/or 3D environments (virtual worlds, gaming worlds).

CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities was the 4th 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 conference featured:

The international research days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities were held in Rennes, France on 23-24th October 2015 and focused on communication and interactions stemming from networks such as the Internet or telecommunications, as well as mono and multimodal, synchronous and asynchronous communications. The focus of the IRD encompassed different CMC genres. These included, but were not limited to, discussion forums, email, SMS, text chat, wiki discussions, discussions in multimodal and/or 3D environments.

Final conference of the DFG Scientific Network Empirikom & 2nd Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities.