Style Sheet and Submission

You can submit your paper on the softconf website: https://softconf.com/n/cmc2024 

Submissions will be in English and will consist of:

•  short papers (2-4 pages, following the existing template; see below) for oral presentations
•  abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations

Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee. Authors of  accepted papers can 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 a special issue journal or a volume publication.
 

We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to: 

•  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
• Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term) archiving of social media data
  

•  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
• Acronymisation and Pseudonymisation
• Lemmatization
• Syntactic parsing
• Semantic Annotation
• LLMs and CMC analysis
  

Word template available here

LaTeX template available here