[Corpora-List] [Deadline Extension]: ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
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Due to the changes in the schedule of ACL workshops, the deadline for submitting
contributions to the WASSA 2012 workshop has been moved to April 15, 2012.
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3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
(WASSA 2012) - http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/
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- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea)
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer Speech
and Language Journal (Elsevier).
- Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also launch
an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information Sciences Journal
(Elsevier).
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IMPORTANT DATES:
April 15, 2012: Extended paper submission deadline
May 3, 2012: Notification of acceptance
May 17, 2012: Camera-ready deadline
Jul 12, 2012: Workshop to take place at ACL 2012
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AIM OF WORKSHOP
Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks in
Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has flourished in the
past years, as the Social Web made it possible for people all over the world to
express, comment or consult opinions on any given topic. The fact that so many
people express themselves on these topics makes opinions less biased and more
credible; their subjective nature makes them easily understandable by all people
and leads to their growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these
reasons, opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business intelligence
processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining unbiased, massive
feedback.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years, dealing
with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex, interdisciplinary
problem that remains far from being solved. Its challenges include the need to
address the issue from different perspectives and at different levels, depending
on the characteristics of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the
final application for which the analysis is done.
Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is
to continue the line of the previous two editions, bringing together researchers
in Computational Linguistics working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and,
more generally, on affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect-
related phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to facilitate
an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, requirements, issues and
applications of the study of subjectivity and sentiment in the context of
traditional and emerging text types. We envisage WASSA as a forum to discuss the
achievements obtained so far and to analyse the different approaches to tackle
the difficulties researchers are confronted with in this research area.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of the Workshop
on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA 2010 and WASSA
2.011) and the final outcome, the purpose of the proposed 3rd edition of the
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
(WASSA 2012) is to create a framework for presenting and discussing the
challenges related to subjectivity and sentiment analysis in NLP, from an
interdisciplinary theoretical and practical perspective.
Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not restricted to the
following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment analysis:
• Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for subjectivity and
sentiment analysis
• Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation
and summarization
• Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment analysis
• Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
• Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
• Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
• The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
• Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
• Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment analysis
• Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
• Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity and
sentiment analysis
• Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
• Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment analysis
techniques
• Classification of stance in dialogues
• Real-world applications of opinion mining systems
We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems, thus
giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their achievements and issues.
At the same time, with the help of demos, we aim at enriching the discussion
forum with application-specific topics for debate.
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ORGANIZERS
• Alexandra Balahur – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy –
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu
• Andrés Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain – montoyo at dlsi.ua.es
• Patricio Martínez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain -
patricio at dlsi.ua.es
• Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Khurshid Ahmad – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India
• Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
• Erik Cambria – University of Stirling, U.K.
• José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
• Michael Gamon – Microsoft
• Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
• Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
• Mijail Kabadjov – Vicomtech, Spain
• Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
• Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
• Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
• Karo Moilanen – Oxford University, U.K.
• Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain
• Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
• Alena Neviarouskaia – University of Tokyo, Japan
• Manabu Okumura – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
• Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
• Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
• Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain
• Josef Steinberger – EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
• Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
• Veselin Stoyanov – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
• Maite Taboada - Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
• José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
• Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
• Alfonso Ureña – University of Jaén, Spain
• Erik van der Goot – EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
• Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
• Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
• Michael Wiegand – Saarland University, Germany
• Theresa Wilson – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
• Taras Zagibalov - Brantwatch, U.K.
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INVITED SPEAKERS
• Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea – University of North Texas, U.S.A.
• Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe – University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
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SUBMISSIONS
At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short papers.
• Long papers
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2)
additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.
• Short papers
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2)
additional pages of references. The following types of papers are appropriate
for a short paper submission:
1. A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2. A small, focused contribution
3. Work in progress
4. A negative result
5. An opinion piece
6. An interesting application nugget
Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice of
presentation will be given not based on the quality of the submission, but on
the PC’s recommendation relating to the most suitable presentation method.
All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the ACL-HLT 2012
Style Files, available at: http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp
Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented with the
identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes
their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously have
been formally published.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with ISBN. The
best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer Speech and
Language Journal (Elsevier).
Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also launch an
open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information Sciences Journal
(Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012
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Dr. Alexandra Balahur
Post-doctoral Researcher
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749
I-21027 Ispra (VA)
Italy
Disclaimer:\"The views expressed in this message are solely those of the writer
and may under no circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the
European Commission.\"
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