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<b><font color="#cc0000">The deadline for submitting contributions
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3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and
Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea) <br>
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM<br>
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the
Computer Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier). <br>
- 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). <br>
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IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
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<b><font color="#cc0000">April 15, 2012: Extended paper
submission deadline<br>
May 3, 2012: Notification of acceptance<br>
May 17, 2012: Camera-ready deadline</font></b><br>
Jul 12, 2012: Workshop to take place at ACL 2012<br>
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AIM OF WORKSHOP<br>
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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. <br>
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. <br>
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. <br>
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TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
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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. <br>
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Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis: <br>
• Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for
subjectivity and sentiment analysis<br>
• Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction,
categorization, aggregation and summarization<br>
• Topic and sentiment studies and applications of
topic-sentiment analysis<br>
• Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.<br>
• Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis<br>
• Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective
language<br>
• The computational treatment of large amounts of
user-generated content<br>
• Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task<br>
• Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and
sentiment analysis<br>
• Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment
analysis<br>
• Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for
subjectivity and sentiment analysis <br>
• Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social
networks <br>
• Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and
sentiment analysis techniques<br>
• Classification of stance in dialogues<br>
• Real-world applications of opinion mining systems<br>
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.<br>
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ORGANIZERS<br>
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• Alexandra Balahur – European Commission Joint Research
Centre, Italy – <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="mailto:alexandra.balahur@jrc.ec.europa.eu">alexandra.balahur@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a><br>
• Andrés Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain – <a
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href="mailto:montoyo@dlsi.ua.es">montoyo@dlsi.ua.es</a> <br>
• Patricio Martínez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain - <a
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href="mailto:patricio@dlsi.ua.es">patricio@dlsi.ua.es</a> <br>
• Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:eboldrini@dlsi.ua.es">eboldrini@dlsi.ua.es</a> <br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE <br>
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• Khurshid Ahmad – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<br>
• Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India<br>
• Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy<br>
• Erik Cambria – University of Stirling, U.K.<br>
• José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain<br>
• Michael Gamon – Microsoft <br>
• Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain<br>
• Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium<br>
• Mijail Kabadjov – Vicomtech, Spain<br>
• Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute
California, U.S.A.<br>
• Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.<br>
• Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada<br>
• Karo Moilanen – Oxford University, U.K.<br>
• Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain<br>
• Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany<br>
• Alena Neviarouskaia – University of Tokyo, Japan<br>
• Manabu Okumura – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan<br>
• Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.<br>
• Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain<br>
• Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.<br>
• Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain<br>
• Josef Steinberger – EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy<br>
• Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy<br>
• Veselin Stoyanov – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.<br>
• Maite Taboada - Simon Fraser University, Canada<br>
• Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.<br>
• José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain<br>
• Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania<br>
• Alfonso Ureña – University of Jaén, Spain<br>
• Erik van der Goot – EC Joint Research Centre, Italy<br>
• Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
• Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.<br>
• Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.<br>
• Michael Wiegand – Saarland University, Germany<br>
• Theresa Wilson – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.<br>
• Taras Zagibalov - Brantwatch, U.K.<br>
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INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
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• Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea – University of North Texas, U.S.A. <br>
• Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe – University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.<br>
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SUBMISSIONS<br>
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At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and
short papers.<br>
• Long papers<br>
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with
two (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented
orally. <br>
• Short papers<br>
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:<br>
1. A paper describing the demonstration of a system<br>
2. A small, focused contribution<br>
3. Work in progress<br>
4. A negative result<br>
5. An opinion piece<br>
6. An interesting application nugget<br>
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.<br>
All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp">http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp</a><br>
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.<br>
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not
previously have been formally published. <br>
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). <br>
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). <br>
To submit a paper, please access: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012">https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012</a><br>
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