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With the growing volume and importance of computer-mediated communication, the need to understand its linguistic and social dimensions, along with CMC-robust language technologies is on the rise as well. This is reflected in the increasing number of conferences, projects and positions involving analysis of CMC in a wide range of disciplines in Digital Humanities, Social Sciences and Computer Science. As a result, a number of valuable CMC corpora, datasets and tools are being developed but unfortunately, due to non-negligible technical, legal and ethical obstacles, not many are being shared and reused. Since it is the mission of CLARIN to create and maintain an infrastructure to support the sharing, use and sustainability of language data and tools for researchers in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, it is our goal to have a good overview of the available resources and tools, to offer support to their developers to overcome the technical, legal and ethical obstacles and deposit them to the CLARIN infrastructure, as well as to the researchers with diverse backgrounds, such as linguistics, media studies, psychology etc., but also to interested parties from the educational, commercial, political, medical and legal sectors of the society who are interested in using them. The first step in this direction was an interdisciplinary workshop on the creation and use of social media which was organized within the Horizon 2020 CLARIN-PLUS project on 18 and 19 May 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania. The aims of the workshop were to demonstrate the possibilities of social media resources and natural language processing tools for researchers with a diverse research background and an interest in empirical research of language and social practices in computer-mediated communication, to promote interdisciplinary cooperation possibilities, and to initiate a discussion on the various approaches to social media data collection and processing. The workshop also served as a platform to conduct a survey of corpora, datasets and tools of ...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying technological infrastructure, the achievements of national consortia, and challenges that CLARIN will tackle in the future. The book is published 10 years after establishing CLARIN as an Europ. Research Infrastructure Consortium.

The paper presents a corpus analysis of corporate communication on Twitter which was performed with a combination of metadata and textual data on the Janes-Tweet corpus. We compare the amount, posting dynamics and use of social-media specific communication elements by corporate and private users. Next, we analyse the language of corporate users. Our analysis shows that, in comparison to private accounts, corporate tweets predominantly use formal communication and standard language characteristics with seldom usage of informal and non-standard choices. In the event of those, however, they are chosen deliberately to address a specific target audience and meet the desired communicative goals. A major contribution of the paper is also a showcase of corpus-based approaches in communication studies, media studies and other related disciplines in social sciences which study language use.

V tem učnem gradivu predstavljamo uporabnost jezikovnih korpusov za analizo družbenokulturnih pojavov, ki jih lahko raziskujemo na podlagi jezikovne rabe v specializiranem, političnem diskurzu. Na primeru korpusne analize govorov poslank in poslancev, kjer nas bo zanimala dinamika zastopanosti žensk v parlamentu in značilnosti njihove rabe jezika, bomo pokazali vrednost bogato označenega diahronega korpusa slovenskih parlamentarnih razprav za digitalno humanistiko in družboslovje.

This tutorial shows how corpora can be used to investigate language use and communication practices in a specialised socio-cultural context of political discourse. We will demonstrate the potential of a richly annotated diachronic corpus of Slovenian parliamentary debates for investigating the characteristics and dynamics of the representation of women and their interests in the parliament.

The paper presents the Parlameter corpus of contemporary Slovene parliamentary proceedings, which covers the VIIth mandate of the Slovene Parliament (2014-2018). The Parlameter corpus offers rich speaker metadata (gender, age, education, party affiliation) and is linguistically annotated (lemmatization, tagging), which boost research in several digital humanities and social sciences disciplines. We demonstrate the potential of the corpus analysis techniques for investigating political debates. The corpus architecture allows for regular extensions of the corpus with additional Slovene data, as well as data from other parliaments, starting with Croatian.

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This study investigates the interplay between commenters' gender and their language use in Slovene socially
unacceptable Facebook comments by inspecting the frequency of opinion markers and impoliteness triggers, and the pragmatic
functions of opinion markers which were investigated according to a newly developed typology. The analysis shows statistically
significant differences between men and women in their formulation of opinions and use of impoliteness triggers. Comments written
by men are characteristically formed as fact-like covert opinions and contain explicit impoliteness triggers (e.g., insults).
Comments written by women are formed as overt opinions explicitly encoding subjectivity and include implicit impoliteness triggers
(e.g., tropes). A common feature is the use of opinion markers as self-oriented face-saving devices. But while men use opinion
markers to explicitly communicate their desire to save face, women use them to perform face-saving implicitly.