[Corpora-List] CFP: IPM journal - Special Issue on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media

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INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT

Special Issue on
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media

AIMS AND SCOPE

Although sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending  
topics since a while, not enough emphasis has been placed so far on  
social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key  
role in applicative fields related to creativity, its expressions and  
outcomes, such as figurative arts, music or drama. In such fields, the  
advent of digital social media has brought about new paradigms of  
interactions that foster first-person engagement and crowdsourcing  
content creation: the subjective and expressive dimensions move to the  
foreground, opening the way to the emergence of an affective component  
within a dynamic corpus of contents - created or enriched by users.
Social and expressive media generate -in a continuous loop of  
interaction between online environments and the community of users- a  
corpus of digitized contents (e.g. text, images, sounds). New contents  
are added to the Web by its users every day, in an orthogonal way with  
respect to the new/old media distinction, with new formats relying on  
traditional media like text (fan generated fictions, tweets, reviews)  
and established expressive forms being delivered through new media  
(amateur video clips, podcasts, pictures). This calls for delving into  
the evolution of approaches, techniques and tools for automatic  
processing, indexing and retrieval of the affective and subjective  
information conveyed by those media.

In order to bring advancements in automatic processing of such  
information, a key role can be played by cognitive models of emotions.  
Suitable affective and emotional models, which underlie the expressive  
aims of those media, need to be defined and integrated into  
traditional techniques of analysis and information processing.  
Generation and manipulation of produced contents (for distribution,  
categorization, browsing, visualization etc.) need to encompass a  
model of their affective qualities (and of their reception by the  
users), especially when the practical goal of assembling and  
delivering to the users contents in a personalized way is pursued.  
Moreover, the focus on multimedia contents asks for the development of  
new techniques of automatic extraction and classification of affective  
information where both textual and extra-linguistic features can be  
exploited. Affective-based visualization techniques may also support  
the development of novel tools for the analysis and exploration of  
multimedia information.

We invite high-quality submissions that address the topic of Emotion  
and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media under different  
perspectives. We encourage the submission of papers from related  
areas, such as natural language processing, information retrieval,  
semantic web, affective computing, and interactive multimodal systems.  
The multidisciplinary approach will extend the possibility of  
cross-validation.

We especially welcome papers facing the following challenges:

- detecting emotion and sentiment in social media and in fields  
related to creativity, its expressions and its outcomes (e.g.  
figurative arts, music, drama);
- automatic processing, indexing and retrieval of the affective  
information in social and expressive media based on structured  
knowledge of affective information, e.g. affective categorization  
models expressed by ontologies, better still if psychologically  
motivated;
- visualization of emotion and sentiment in social and expressive  
media in order to enhance navigation and access to information and  
multimedia contents;
- fostering the interoperability and integration of tools by  
encouraging compliance with emerging standards, which enable semantic  
metadata processing.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

- sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social & expressive media
- subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social & expressive media
- social & expressive media corpora and annotations
- creative language (humor, irony, metaphor, etc.) in social &  
expressive media
- concept-level sentiment analysis
- sentiment and emotion summarization & visualization
- emotion modeling and ontologies
- emotions in multimedia and multimodal systems
- emotions in sounds and music computing
- emotions in interactive entertainment
- emotions in storytelling
- emotions in cultural heritage access
- semantic web technologies for subjectivity & sentiment analysis
- knowledge representation and reasoning about emotions

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: 30th April 2014
First Review: 31st July 2014
Revisions Due: 31st October 2014
Final Decision: 31st January 2015
Final Manuscript Due: 31st March 2015
Tentative Publication Date: 2015

GUEST EDITORS

Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Cristina Bosco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rossana Damiano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at: 
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors
For more information, please contact: Paolo Rosso (prosso at dsic.upv.es).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Contributions should be submitted via the journal online submission system available through the journal homepage (not earlier than 15th March 2014), selecting SI:ESSEM when at the Article Type step in the submission  
process:
http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/login_action.asp


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