Conference Schedule
Provisional program. Times and session details may still be adjusted.
Thursday, 27 August 2026
| Time | L2 | Tellus Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening and practical information | |
| 09:15–10:15 |
University of Eastern Finland, Finland Chair: Steven Coats Ego Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication |
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| 10:15–10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45–12:45 | Session 1A: Corpus construction and computational analysis Chair: Reinhild Vandekerckhove |
Session 1B: Interaction, identity and emoji use Chair: Lieke Verheijen |
| 10:45–11:15 |
University of Copenhagen, Denmark Establishing the Corpus of Danish Digitally Mediated Interaction (DanDIGI) |
University of Antwerp, Belgium Rethinking Emoji Functions in Later Life: How Older Adults Interpret Emoji in Context |
| 11:15–11:45 |
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany Quantitative Approaches to German CMC Corpora |
Hanken School of Economics, Finland Emojis in Swedish-Speakers’ WhatsApp Discussions: Hearts vs. Grins |
| 11:45–12:15 |
Radboud University, The Netherlands The Lexical Metaphor in Wine Speak: Semi-Automated, Manual Annotation in Expert and Non-Expert Wine Reviews |
University of Eastern Finland, Finland Personal Pronoun Declarations in CMC Networks: Tracing a Sociolinguistic Innovation in the Context of the Weak-Tie Hypothesis |
| 12:15–12:45 |
1 CY Cergy Paris Université, France; 2 ENSEA (École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications), France Graph Classification Explainability Meets Extremist Narrative Analysis |
1 Université Toulouse–Jean Jaurès, CLLE, CNRS, France; 2 Université Côte d’Azur, BCL, CNRS, France Leave and Let Die: Announcing a Departure from an Online Discussion |
| 12:45–13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45–15:15 | Session 2: Computational and annotation methods Chair: Laura Herzberg |
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| 13:45–14:15 |
1 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2 University of Tübingen, Germany Computational Modeling of Register Variation in Positive Online Language |
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| 14:15–14:45 |
University of Oulu, Finland Decoding Parameters as Methodological Choices in ASR-Derived Corpus Construction |
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| 14:45–15:15 |
Eurac Research, Italy Sentence-Level Universal Dependencies (UD) Genres for CMC: A Social-Genre POS-Tagging Showcase |
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| 15:15–15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45–16:15 | Poster slam Chair: Jarkko Toikkanen |
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| 16:15–17:00 | Poster session | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner | |
Friday, 28 August 2026
| Time | L2 | Tellus Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00–10:00 |
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Chair: Maarit Siromaa Food Discourses on YouTube: Exploring a Corpus of Excessive Consumption Videos |
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| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Session 3A: Register, language variation and ideology Chair: Maarit Siiromaa |
Session 3B: Platforms, identity and online discourse Chair: Jarkko Toikkanen |
| 10:30–11:00 |
1 University of Tübingen, Germany; 2 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Medium, Register, and the Individual as Sources of Linguistic Variation |
Shobi University, Japan An Age-Cohort Approach for Analyzing X (Formerly Twitter) Data |
| 11:00–11:30 |
University of Turku, Finland Regional and Minority Languages in CMC: Exploring Low German on Instagram |
1 Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom The Flattening Effect: A Comparative Study of Sociopragmatic Erasure and Identity Loss in Translated Vietnamese-English Cyber-Discourse |
| 11:30–12:00 |
University of Eastern Finland, Finland Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis on “Good English”: Attitudes and Ideologies on the Suomi24 Discussion Forum |
Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Self-Censorship Strategies of Crime Junkies Online: An Analysis of Algospeak Used by True Crime Content Creators on TikTok |
| 12:00–13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15–14:15 | Session 4: LLM-assisted analysis of online interaction Chair: Steven Coats |
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| 13:15–13:45 |
Indiana University, United States Beyond Agreement: Using LLM Reasoning to Evaluate Speech Acts and Politeness in Social Media |
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| 13:45–14:15 |
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany An Approach to LLM-Based Annotation of Reply Relations |
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| 14:15–14:30 | Short break | |
| 14:30–15:30 |
CMC Knowledge Centre workshop: Metadata practices for CMC corpora Led by Egon W. Stemle (Eurac Research, Italy) and Alexander König (CLARIN ERIC, The Netherlands) |
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| 15:30–15:45 | Closing remarks | |
Poster Program
The poster slam and poster session will take place on Thursday afternoon.
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Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany
The Enhanced German Wikipedia Talk Pages Corpus: New Annotations for Emojis and Gender-Sensitive Language -
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany
Participatory CMC Corpus Building: A Museum-Based Approach to Data Donation and Public Engagement -
Radboud University, The Netherlands
Cross-Cultural Computer-Mediated Culinary Communication: Affordances and Constraints of the Current Food Emoji -
1 Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany; 2 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Komplett behindert?!?!? Token-Based Embeddings for Analysing Polysemy of the Word behindert (‘disabled’) in German CMC Corpora -
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany
cmc-tagger: A Tagger for Computer-Mediated Communication Corpora -
University of Oulu, Finland
Reddit Discourses on Generative AI Usage in Work -
1 Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Germany; 2 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
TEI SIG CMC: Infrastructure and Resources for the Encoding of CMC Corpora -
1 University of Helsinki, Finland; 2 Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Representation of Minoritized Groups in Social Media Responses to UK Government Communication during COVID-19 -
University of Turku, Finland
Fine-Tuning Embeddings for Register Classification Reveals Functional Subtypes within Social Media Registers -
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Design and Annotation of a Multilayer CMC Corpus for the Analysis of Spanish Conditional Constructions -
University of Oulu, Finland
Setting Experiences against Expectations in Personal Narratives on Talking about Weight in Healthcare Encounters -
1 Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, BCL, France; 2 Université Paris Nanterre, CNRS, MoDyCo, France; 3 CORLI Consortium, Huma-Num, France; 4 Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LLF, France
Integrating CMC into a Transversal Metadata Scheme: The Open French Corpus Case -
1 CLARIN ERIC, The Netherlands; 2 Eurac Research, Italy; 3 Université Côte d’Azur, France; 4 University of Oulu, Finland
A Curation Strategy for the CLARIN Resource Family for Computer-Mediated Communication -
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
“Yet another dumbass 🙂”: Understanding 🙂 within the Vietnamese Online Community -
Tampere University, Finland
Performing Moral Authority: How ‘should be ashamed’ Circulates across Contrasting Affordances of X and Bluesky