[Corpora-List] CFP: EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks

[Diana Inkpen]

CALL FOR PAPERS

EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks
April 23, 2012, Avignon, France

Website: 
http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2012_social_media_workshop.html

Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2012

Semantic analysis in social networks (SN) is important for applications 
such as understanding
and enabling social networks, natural language interfaces and human 
behaviour on the web,
e-learning environments, cyber communities and educational or online 
shared workspaces.
These aspects are also important in security, privacy & identity, 
opinion mining, sentiment
analysis, and in the larger area of affective computing.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names 
and researchers
involved in text analysis and social networks in the context of natural 
language understanding,
natural language generation, automatic categorization, topic detection, 
emotion analysis, and
applications using computational approaches to process social networks. 
Besides methodologies
and techniques for SN analysis, we also encourage the submission of 
papers that experiment
with and describe applicative contexts in which analysis and detection 
of affective aspects are
useful and beneficial.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- semantic analysis in sentences and web content from social networks
- classification of texts by emotion and mood from SN
- sociology of emotions and influence on inter-personal communications
- topic detection and clustering in SN
- SN analysis across different languages
- SN analysis from multimedia (text, speech, video)
- security and privacy issues in SNs
- automatic summarization from multiple sources and multiple languages
- analysis of sentiment and opinion in SN
- information extraction and indexing
- applications in which affective aspects are beneficial
- tools and resources for accessing, representing, and managing social 
network data
   in natural language processing frameworks (e.g., GATE, UIMA)
- other aspects of the computational treatment of SN and affect.

We would like to invite researchers to submit their original and 
unpublished work to the workshop.
Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged. We hope to 
cover three main
perspectives: government (e.g., security and criminology), industry 
(e.g., marketing), and academic
(e.g., theoretical research related to SNs).

We are in negotiations with a journal for a special issue, for selected 
papers from the workshop.
An invited speaker for the workshop will be chosen at a later date.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission: January 30, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2012
Revised version of papers: March 9, 2012
Workshop: April 23, 2012

Submission instructions:

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work 
in the topic area of
this workshop.  Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2012 
stylefiles for latex or
MS Word, with blind review and not exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page 
for references.
The PDF files will be submitted electronically at 
https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/SASN2012/

Organizing committee:

Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies Inc. and Université de Montréal Canada)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Programme Committee:

Colin Cherry (National Research Council, Canada)
Viola Ganter (HITS gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)
Mitsuru Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis)
Wael Khreich (NLP Technologies Inc, Canada)
Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues (University of Porto, Portugal)
Alena Neviarouskaya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Alexander Osherenko (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Victoria Rubin (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (FBK-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Alessandro Valitutti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Simone Teufel (Cambridge University, UK)
Clifford J. Wenstein (MIT, USA)
René Witte (Concordia University, Canada)


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