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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>========================================== <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>CALL FOR PAPERS<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>==========================================<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Workshop on Intelligent Approaches to Sentiment Mining and Emotion Analysis (WISMEA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wismean">https://sites.google.com/site/wismean</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, 21 October 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>In conjunction with:</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'> </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>The XXI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>==========================================<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers to the first Workshop on Intelligent Approaches to Sentiment Mining and Emotion Analysis (WISMEA). The workshop<span style='color:#1A1A1A'> will be held together with the SBIA 2012, which is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation of research and applications in Artificial Intelligence. The conference will be held in Curitiba, Paraná, 20-25 October 2012.</span><span style='color:#343434'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Sentiment detection from texts has witnessed a booming interest in recent years. More than ever before, people are sharing their knowledge, experience and thoughts with entire world, through blogs, wikis, forum, chats and social networks. The automatic detection of sentiment (opinion) and emotions in texts is important for a variety of applications such as e-commerce, e-learning environments, or entertainment games. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in processing and extracting of opinion mining, sentiment and emotions analysis, for many languages.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Researchers are encouraged to submit papers focused on techniques in fields from AI and natural language processing applied to extracting of opinions, sentiments and emotions. Besides methodologies and techniques for opinion mining, sentiment and emotions 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. Transfer of data sets or other resources from one language to another or building resources for various languages is also of interest.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- extraction opinion and sentiment analysis from the Web using AI techniques;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- AI techniques of opinion mining;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- novel approaches for sentiment and opinion mining ;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- machine learning applied to opinion mining, sentiment and emotions analysis;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- emotion analysis in sentences and documents;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- multi-lingual opinion mining and sentiment analysis;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- classification of texts by emotion and mood;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- emotion processing across different languages;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- the analysis of sentiment and opinion that contains emotional aspects;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- emotion analysis in automatic speech transcripts;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- applications in which affective aspects are beneficial;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- other aspects of the AI treatment of emotions and affect in Wed data;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- applications of sentiment analysis and opinion mining;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>- sociolinguistic aspects of classification.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Deadline for Paper Submission: June 21, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Accepted paper notification: July 28, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Camera-ready paper uploading: August 11, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Submission instructions: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>The workshop proceedings will be published in a CD-ROM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>Papers should be written in English, with at most 12 pages, and submitted in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS style (see </span><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html"><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</span></a><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1A1A'>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#222222'>The PDF files must be submitted electronically at: </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wismea2012"><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wismea2012</span></a><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Organizing committee</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Ahmed Esmin (University Federal of Lavras, Brazil / Visiting Researcher at University of Ottawa, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Programme Committee</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Alena Neviarouskaya (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Alexander Osherenko (Socioware Development, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Amitava Das (NTNU,Trondheim, Norway)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Chung-Wei Hang (North Carolina State University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Denilson Alves Pereira (University of Lavras, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Dipankar Das (Jadavpur University, India )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (AT&T Labs NJ, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Marluce Pereira (University of Lavras, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Mathieu Roche (LIRMM – UMR -<a name="_GoBack"></a> Université Montpellier , France )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Xibin Gao (North Carolina State University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#343434'>Yongzheng Zhang (Senior Research Scientist, eBay Research Labs, USA)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>