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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please see below a Call for Papers for a special issue of
TAL covering opinions, sentiment and subjectivity. Papers may be submitted in English
or in French. With apologies for cross-postings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Special edition
of TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Opinions,
sentiment and subjectivity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Deadline for
submissions: 31 May 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Guest editors:
Agata Jackiewicz (STIH, Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Susan Hunston
(University of Birmingham) and Marc El-Beze (LIA, Université D’Avignon) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In
recent years there has been a growing interest in research about opinions,
attitudes, sentiment and emotions expressed in written texts, involving for
example on-line editions of print-based newspapers and newer media such as
blogs or e-forums. A new field of research is rapidly establishing itself in a
number of areas, pursuing a range of objectives and including the study of
opinions about a variety of entities (products, behaviours and so on) based on
methods and techniques that are equally diverse. Evidence for this increase in
interest includes the establishment of a number of research groups and the
recent opinion mining exercises FODDP ’08, DEFT ’07, DEFT
’09, CTNIR6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
study of opinions, attitudes and sentiment involves a diverse range of
variables: the object of opinion, the source of opinion (made complex by the presence
of attribution and dialogue), the strength and polarity of the opinion, whether
it is expressed overtly or covertly, the degree of alignment in opinion between
the text producer and the receiver. It is known that the expression of opinion
is complex and can be fine-grained. As a result, attempts to focus only on the
simple assignment of polarity to a whole document lead to results which are
exploitable only in relatively restricted cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alongside
this variation goes a variety of research approaches, including the automation
of sentiment identification and analysis, the investigation of stance in
conversation and in written text, the modelling of evaluative language in
Appraisal theory (J. Martin and P. White 2005 <i>The Language of Evaluation</i>),
and the use of corpus-driven lexical studies to identify evaluative prosodies.
To these might be added studies of evidentiality, metadiscourse, point of view,
rhetoric, persuasion and argumentation, and philosophical approaches to the
activity of evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There
is an increasing amount of data available to researchers. For example, on many
websites, visitors are invited to write or say what they think of a product, an
object, an idea or a person. There are no constraints on the kind of language
that can be used, and the extreme variability of forms which express subjective
points of view is such that they are particularly difficult to detect
automatically. There is no agreed approach that would process this data and
make it of benefit to the user.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In
view of the wide variety of work that has been undertaken from a range of
disciplines, and the need to achieve more applicable results, a review and
proposals for future work is timely. It needs to be undertaken from at least
four points of view: (1) a modelling of how knowledge comes about (what is an
‘opinion’, how can it be represented?); (2) expression in language
and discourse (how are opinions, in their various guises, formulated?); (3) the
methods needed to achieve an automatic analysis of written and recorded texts
and (4) how a diversity of opinions can be identified and represented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Objectives
and themes</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
aim of the special issue of TAL is to summarise and comment on recent progress
on the analysis of opinions, sentiments and evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This
call for papers is directed towards information scientists, linguists, and
argumentation specialists. We hope for as broad a range of viewpoints,
methodologies and approaches as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We
wish to publish both innovative papers and those which synthesise previous work
and look to the future on themes including the following (indicative list
only):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>Modelling opinions using linguistics and
information science:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=circle>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The definition, categorisation and
formalisation of ideas about opinion, evaluation, and sentiment
(linguistic models, ontologies etc);<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The characterisation of different
parameters used to classify opinions (object of evaluation – source
– context – type of attitude);<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Quantitative and symbolic
approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The construction, acquisition and validation of
linguistics resources (lexical, grammatical, phraseological) for the
expression of opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The characterisation, annotation and automatic
extraction of opinions in written and audiovisual texts.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The representation of opinion-bearing
discourse:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=circle>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The identification of text
segments involving opinions characterised by a number of criteria
(semantic value, source, strength, focus, type of entity being evaluated
etc);<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The representation of the
development of opinions and the change of opinions over time.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The study and treatment of opinions in
commercial contexts:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=circle>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The analysis of opinions in
specialised domains;<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Responses to real-world needs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br
clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(Provisional)
editorial panel</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nicholas
Asher, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Monika
Bednarek, University of Sidney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Farah
Benamara Zitoune, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Yves
Bestgen, CECL, Université catholique de Louvain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thierry
Charnois, GREYC, Université de Caen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Chloé
Clavel, EDF, Paris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Marc
El-Bèze, LIA, Université d’Avignon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Stéphane
Ferrari, GREYC, Université de Caen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Catherine
Gouttas, Thales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Susan
Huston, University of Birmingham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Agata
Jackiewicz, STIH,Université de Paris-Sorbonne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Philippe
Laublet, STIH, Université Paris-Sorbonne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mark
Lee, University of Birmingham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dominique
Legallois, CRISCO, Université de Caen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Marie-Francine
Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Laura
Monceaux, LINA, Université de Nantes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Renato
De Mori, LIA, Université d’Avignon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Maria
Teresa Pazienza, Université de Rome Tor Vergata <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mathieu
Roche, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Horacio
Rodriguez , Université Polytechnique de Catalogne, Barcelone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Horacio
Saggion, University of Sheffield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Geoff
Thompson, <a name="OLE_LINK3">University of Liverpool</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Juan
Manuel Torres-Moreno, LIA, Université d’Avignon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To
be confirmed: <a name="OLE_LINK2"><i>Janet Wiebe</i></a><i>, University of
Pittsburgh</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Format</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Articles
should be submitted in Word or LaTeX. Instructions to authors and the
stylesheet can be found at this address: <a
href="http://www.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles">http://www.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles</a>
and <a href="http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp">http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Language</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Articles
may be submitted in French or in English. Articles in English will be accepted
only from non-francophone authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Important
dates</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>31.05.2010: Deadline for submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>15.09.2010: Editors’ decision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>01/11/2010: Deadline for revised
versions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Publication
is expected by the beginning of 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Article
submission</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Articles
(20 to 25 pages maximum when in pdf format) should be sent electronically to
these addresses: <a href="mailto:s.e.hunston@bham.ac.uk">s.e.hunston@bham.ac.uk</a>;
<a href="mailto:Agata.Jackiewicz@paris-sorbonne.fr">Agata.Jackiewicz@paris-sorbonne.fr</a>;
and <a href="mailto:marc.elbeze@univ-avignon.fr">marc.elbeze@univ-avignon.fr</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Prof Susan Hunston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>University of Birmingham<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Birmingham B15 2TT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5675<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Email: s.e.hunston@bham.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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