Building and annotating corpora of computer-mediated communication: Issues and challenges at the interface of corpus and computational linguistics

Abstract

This special issue of the JLCL gathers five contributions of scholars and projects who aim to close the “CMC gap” in the corpora landscape for several European languages: the French CoMeRe project (Chanier et al.), the South Tyrolian DiDi project (Glaznieks & Stemle), the German Wikipedia corpus (Margaretha & Lüngen), the Dutch VU Chat corpus (Spooren & van Charldorp), and the research on language variation in Dutch Twitter data (van Halteren & Oostdijk).