CLARIN-PLUS WORKSHOP: Creation and Use of Social Media Resources

18-19 May 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania

Acknowledgements The CLARIN-PLUS Workshop “Creation and Use of Social Media Resources“ in Kaunas, Lithuania hosted by CLARIN-LT, was the fourth and final workshop in a series of user involvement workshops within the CLARIN-PLUS project.

INVITED TALKS

• to demonstrate the possibilities of social media resources and natural language processing tools for researchers with a diverse research background who are interested in empirical research of language and social practices in computer-mediated communication

• to promote interdisciplinary cooperation possibilities • to initiate a discussion on the various approaches to social media data collection and processing

Invited talk 1: “Creation of Standards for Social Media Corpora: a Digital Humanities Topic Par Excellence”

Prof. dr. Michael Beißwenger, University of Duisburg-Essen

Invited talk 2: “NLP Meets Computational Social (Media) Science” Dr. Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen

Invited talk 3: “Thinking Critically about Digital Data Collection: Twitter and Beyond”

Dr. Rebekah Tromble, Leiden University

Invited talk 4: “Collection, Storage and Analysis of Online Teenage Talk: Assets and Challenges”

Dr. Reinhild Vandekerckhove, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Invited talk 5: “Text Analysis for Social Media Cybersecurity: the AMiCA Project”

Prof. dr. Els Lefever, Ghent University

Demo Session: “An Open Source GATE Toolkit for Social Media Analysis”

Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Hands-on Session: “Harvesting, Processing and Visualising Data from Twitter”

Dr. Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute

AIMS

DEMO SESSIONS

RESULTS AND FOLLOW UP

• Online overview of CMC corpora (available in Google docs)

• Two blog posts (by Adrien Barbaresi and organisers)

• Nikola Ljubešić‘s practical toolkit on harvesting, processing, and visualising data from Twitter available on the event page https://www.clarin.eu/events

• For more information about the workshop visit: https://www.clarin.eu/events

• Videos of invited talks, presentations by participants and interviews with participants have been published on Videolectures: http://videolectures.net/clarin/