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PresentationThe 5th conference Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities will be held in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy&#160;on 3-4 October 2017 and will focus on the collection, analysis and processing of mono and multimodal, synchronous and asynchronous communications. The focus will encompass different CMC genres. These include, but are 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).The conference will bring together researchers who are interested in the collection, organization, processing, analysis and sharing of CMC data&#160;for research purposes. We invite submissions&#160;on corpus&#160;analysis of various types of CMC data for linguistic or&#160;applied linguistic purposes and&#160;Natural Language Processing.The conference is hosted by Eurac Research and will be followed by the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, which will be held at the same venue from 5-7 October.Conference topicsDevelopment of CMC corporaBuilding CMC corpora: from data collection to publicationOpen data for research on CMC: questions of ethics and rightsAnnotation of CMC genres: representation of CMC genres, annotation of linguistic phenomena, metadataMultimodal corporaAnalysis of CMC corporaSociolinguistic studies of CMCDiscourse analysis of CMCLinguistic characteristics of CMCMultimodal aspects of CMCLanguage in contact and code-switching in CMCCMC in language learning &#38; teachingNatural Language Processing of CMCNormalizationPoS TaggingLemmatizationSyntactic parsingNamed-entity recognitionSubmission guidelinesWe invite submissions for papers, posters and software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the above list of themes. For this conference, we are requesting extended abstracts (2-4 pages) in English. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. All submissions should follow the template which you can download here: MSWord and LaTeX. Please submit your paper via the teonline conference sysm.Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.The poster presentation and software/corpus demonstration session will be opened with each presenter/demonstrator giving a one-minute &#8216;teaser talk.&#8217;Accepted papers will be published in online proceedings before the&#160;conference. After the conference, authors of best-reviewed papers will be invited to submit&#160;extended versions of their papers to be published in an edited monograph to appear in 2018.Schedule1st June: submission deadline25 July: notification of acceptance25&#160;August: submission of camera-ready&#160;version3rd &#38; 4th October: conferenceFurther&#160;inquiriesby email: cmc-corpora2017 @ eurac.eduScientific committeeChairCiara R. Wigham (LRL, France)Co-chairsDarja Fi&#353;er (UL, Slovenia)Michael Bei&#223;wenger (UDE, Germany)MembersAndrea Abel (Eurac Research, Italy)Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland)Daria Dayter (University of Basel, Switzerland)Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)Jennifer Frey (Universit&#224; di Bologna, Italy)Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research, Italy)Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)Dawn Knight (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)Julien Longhi (Universit&#233; de Cergy-Pontoise, France)Harald L&#252;ngen&#160;(Institut f&#252;r Deutsche Sprache, Germany)Maja Miličević (University of Belgrade, Serbia)Mar&#237;a-Teresa Ortego-Ant&#243;n (University of Valladolid, Spain)Muge Satar (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)Stefania Spina (University for Foreigners, Italy)Egon W. Stemle&#160;(Eurac Research, Italy)Angelika Storrer (Universitaet Mannheim, Germany)Organizing&#160;CommitteeEgon W. Stemle&#160;(Eurac Research, Italy)Daniela Gasser (Eurac Research, Italy)