Dear List,

the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP below and attached).

Keynotes

Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University)

Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST

The conference brings 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.

We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds.

We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics:

* 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

* 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

* Lemmatization

* Syntactic parsing

* CMC for the benefit of digital societies

* Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies

* Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC

* Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences

* Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science

* Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science

* Contrastive CM studies across different languages

The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of:

* Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations

* Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations

Submission and review

Authors of accepted papers are invited to 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 one or more special issue journal or a volume publication.

Instructions for authors

All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool).

Templates

Submission templates for MS Word and LaTeX are provided on the conference’s homepage:

https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/.

Important Dates

* Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: 17th February 2025

* Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST

More information on the CMC2025 conference:

https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/

For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025@uni-bayreuth.de.

More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”:

https://cmc-corpora.org/series/#

Local organizing committee:

* Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science)

* Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau)

Scientific chairs:

* Dr. Steven Coats (University Oulu)

* Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth)

* Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University)

* Prof. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/U. of Passau)

* Prof. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp)

* Dr. Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)

Scientific committee (so far confirmed):

* Paul Baker (Lancaster University)

* Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University)

* Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zürich)

* Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

* Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim)

* Steven Coats (University of Oulu)

* Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University)

* Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg)

* Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela)

* Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation – Bavarian Academy of Science)

* Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen)

* Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano)

* Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University)

* Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

* Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen)

* Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

* Besim Kabashi (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg)

* Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center)

* Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC)

* Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim)

* Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland)

* Els Lefever (Ghent University)

* Julien Longhi (Cergy-Pontoise Université)

* Harald Lüngen (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim)

* Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski (University of Greifswald)

* Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna)

* Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University)

* Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim)

* Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

* Steven Schoonjans (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt)

* Mirco Schönfeld (University of Bayreuth)

* Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)

* Egon Stemle (Eurac Research)

* Caroline Tagg (The Open University)

* Stefanie Ullmann (University of Cambridge)

* Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/Universität Passau)

* Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp)

* Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)

* Stefanie Walter (Technical University Munich)

* Katrin Weller (GESIS Cologne)

All the best,

Annamaria Fabian (Bayreuth) and Igor Trost (Klagenfurt/Passau)

Dr. Annamaria Fabian Principal Investigator (Post-Doc) of the project "Disability diversity and the communicative realization of inclusion on Social Media" Department German Linguistics University of Bayreuth https://www.gl.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/A-Fabian/index.php

Member of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (Bavarian Academy of Science) Head of the Research Group "Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Societies"

Newly published: Annamaria Fabian, Igor Trost, Kevin Altmann & Mara Schwind (2024): The analysis of ‘inclusion’ and ‘accessibility’ in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies. pp. 16-20 (double-side print). In: Céline Poudat, Mathilde Guernut. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2024), CORLI; Université Côte d’Azur, 2024. halshs-04673776v1 available here: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/CMC2024_2_.pdf