SIG:CMC/Technical Meeting on CMC at DARIAH VCC 2014

This pages describes the goal and tentative program for a community session/technical meeting on issues related with the modeling of CMC corpora organized by members of the CMC-SIG at the 4th DARIAH-EU VCC meeting 2014 in Rome. Date: Thursday, September 18, 15:00-18:00 Location: Rome, Villa Mirafiori Main page of the CMC-SIG in this wiki: SIG:Computer-Mediated Communication DESCRIPTION TEI CMC: Models and tools for structuring & annotating corpora of social media / computer-­mediated communication See PDF version on the DARIAH website Corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) are a desideratum for many scholars in the humanities who are interested in doing empirical research of language use and of emerging communicative genres on the Internet and in social media applications. Important steps for building such corpora and for representing them in an interoperable way are: To create models for the representation of CMC (including text-only as well as multimodal genres) which comply with a standard or de-facto standard in the field of humanities; To adapt tools for boilerplate removal and natural language processing to the structural and linguistic peculiarities of these genres (e.g., tools for converting raw CMC data into a standard format; tools for linguistic processing, such as tokenizers, POS taggers, parsers etc.). Researchers at a European level are already aware that many of the challenges in building CMC corpora in the humanities are the same for every language; therefore CMC corpus projects for different languages can benefit from sharing knowledge and experience with each other and from facing the challenges as a joint task. Since 2013, a group of corpus projects from France, Germany, bItaly and the Netherlands has started to exchange expertise and experience in building CMC corpora (= the network "Building and annotating CMC corpora", https://wiki.itmc.tu-dortmund.de/cmc/) and to jointly work on a proposal for an extension to the TEI standard which is adapted to the particularities of a broad range of CMC genres (= the TEI special interest group on CMC, http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/). The DARIAH technical meeting will gather a restricted number of researchers, coming from different European countries, involved in projects aiming at building, structuring, annotating and analyzing CMC corpora - including: CoMeRe: Project for a corpus of French CMC: http://comere.org Dortmund Chat Corpus: http://www.chatkorpus.tu-dortmund.de DeRiK: project for a reference corpus of German CMC: http://www.tinyurl.com/derik-­llc Web2CorpusIT: Pilot Corpus of Italian Computer-­Mediated communication: http://www.glottoweb.org/web2corpus/ Wikipedia corpora in DeReKo / IDS Mannheim: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/dereko KobRA: Corpus-based linguistic analysis with the help of data mining: http://www.kobra.tu-dortmund.de The expected outcomes of the meeting are, amongst others: an advanced proposal for representing CMC genres in TEI (which subsequently shall be presented as a proposal to the TEI community in 2015); a first exchange about experience in automatically structuring and processing CMC data as well as a concept for a common platform (to be set up in 2015) for the documentation and exchange of NLP tools and annotation experiments with other projects and research groups interested in building CMC corpora in different languages; plans for international scientific events (extended workshops, conferences) based on these topics in 2015/16. PROGRAM (preliminary) Wed, September 17, 2014: Short intro/presentation (3-5 mins) on the work of our community Thu, September 18, 2014: Community meeting (3 hours). Pt. I: Presentations (Thu 15:00-17:00) Harald Lüngen & Eliza Margareta (IDS Mannheim): Applying the TEI CMC SIG proposal to Wikipedia corpora Thierry Chanier (UBP Clermont): End of phase 1 of the CoMeRe project: application of the Interaction Space (TEI-CMC) model to various CMC corpora in French Michael Beißwenger & Christian Pölitz (TU Dortmund): Analyzing CMC corpora using Machine Learning methods: report from the KobRA project Benoit Sagot (Alpage/CNRS & INRIA): Application of a general POS tagger for corpora in French to the CoMeRe-CMC corpora Michael Beißwenger (TU Dortmund): Shared task on linguistic annotation of German CMC: intermediate report from the preparation of EmpiriST2015 Pt. II: Round table: further work on standards and joint scientific activities (Thu 17:00-18:00) Discussion of the current draft schema from the perspective of different projects and initiatives; ideas for annotations on the microlevel (= inner structure of postings) and about the interface between POS annotations and the microstructure in the TEI schema schedule for extending the standards (e.g., the next step in the TEI-CMC SIG) plans for scientific events in 2015-16 focused on annotations, NLP4CMC, work on wikipedia & other genres platform for the documentation and exchange of NLP tools and annotation experiments?