<blockquote type="cite">==========================================<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<div><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">**Deadline for Paper Submission: June 21, 2012**</font></div><div><br></div>
<div><b>Extended Paper Submission Deadline : July 2, 2012</b>.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>==========================================<br><br>Workshop on Intelligent Approaches to Sentiment Mining and Emotion<br>
Analysis (WISMEA)<br><br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wismean" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wismean" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/wismean</a><br>
<br>Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, 21 October 2012.<br><br>In conjunction with: The XXI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial<br>Intelligence - SBIA<br><br>==========================================<br><br><br><br>It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers to the first Workshop<br>
on Intelligent Approaches to Sentiment Mining and Emotion Analysis<br>(WISMEA). The workshop will be held together with the SBIA 2012, which<br>is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation of research and<br>applications in Artificial Intelligence. The conference will be held<br>
in Curitiba, Paraná, 20-25 October 2012.<br><br> Sentiment detection from texts has witnessed a<br>booming interest in recent years. More than ever before, people are<br>sharing their knowledge, experience and thoughts with entire world,<br>
through blogs, wikis, forum, chats and social networks. The automatic<br>detection of sentiment (opinion) and emotions in texts is important<br>for a variety of applications such as e-commerce, e-learning<br>environments, or entertainment games. This workshop will provide a<br>
forum for discussion between researchers involved in processing and<br>extracting of opinion mining, sentiment and emotions analysis, for<br>many languages.<br><br>Researchers are encouraged to submit papers focused on techniques in<br>
fields from AI and natural language processing applied to extracting<br>of opinions, sentiments and emotions. Besides methodologies and<br>techniques for opinion mining, sentiment and emotions analysis, we<br>also encourage the submission of papers that experiment with and<br>
describe applicative contexts in which analysis and detection of<br>affective aspects are useful and beneficial. Transfer of data sets or<br>other resources from one language to another or building resources for<br>various languages is also of interest.<br>
<br><br><br> We would like to invite researchers to submit their original and<br>unpublished work to the workshop. Demos of working or under<br>development systems are encouraged.<br><br><br><br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
<br>- extraction opinion and sentiment analysis from the Web using AI techniques;<br><br>- AI techniques of opinion mining;<br><br>- novel approaches for sentiment and opinion mining ;<br><br>- machine learning applied to opinion mining, sentiment and emotions analysis;<br>
<br>- emotion analysis in sentences and documents;<br><br>- multi-lingual opinion mining and sentiment analysis;<br><br>- classification of texts by emotion and mood;<br><br>- emotion processing across different languages;<br>
<br>- the analysis of sentiment and opinion that contains emotional aspects;<br><br>- emotion analysis in automatic speech transcripts;<br><br>- applications in which affective aspects are beneficial;<br><br>- other aspects of the AI treatment of emotions and affect in Wed data;<br>
<br>- applications of sentiment analysis and opinion mining;<br><br>- sociolinguistic aspects of classification.<br><br><br><br>Important dates<br><br>Deadline for Paper Submission: June 21, 2012.<br><br>Accepted paper notification: July 28, 2012.<br>
<br>Camera-ready paper uploading: August 11, 2012.<br><br><br><br>Submission instructions:<br><br>Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished<br>work in the topic area of this workshop.<br><br>All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field.<br>
<br>The workshop proceedings will be published in a CD-ROM.<br><br>Papers should be written in English, with at most 12 pages, and<br>submitted in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS style (see<br><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>).<br>
<br>The PDF files must be submitted electronically at:<br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wismea2012" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wismea2012" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wismea2012</a><br>
<br><br><br>Organizing committee<br><br>Ahmed Esmin (University Federal of Lavras, Brazil / Visiting<br>Researcher at University of Ottawa, Canada)<br><br></div><div>Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)<br><br>Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada)<br>
<br><br><br><br><br>Programme Committee<br><br>Alena Neviarouskaya (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)<br><br>Alexander Osherenko (Socioware Development, Germany)<br><br>Amitava Das (NTNU,Trondheim, Norway)<br><br>
Chung-Wei Hang (North Carolina State University, USA)<br><br>Denilson Alves Pereira (University of Lavras, Brazil)<br><br>Dipankar Das (Jadavpur University, India )<br><br>Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)<br>
<br>Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis, USA)<br><br>Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (AT&T Labs NJ, USA)<br><br>Marluce Pereira (University of Lavras, Brazil)<br><br>Mathieu Roche (LIRMM – UMR - Université Montpellier , France )<br>
<br>Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada)<br><br>Xibin Gao (North Carolina State University, USA)<br><br>Yongzheng Zhang (Senior Research Scientist, eBay Research Labs, USA)<br><div><br></div></div></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family:Times">Dr.<span> </span>Ahmed Esmin</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Times">Visiting researcher:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">University of Ottawa</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times"><a href="http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Times">Tel: <a href="tel:%28613%29%20562-5800%20ext.%206394" value="+16135625800" target="_blank">(613) 562-5800 ext. 6394</a>, Fax: <a href="tel:%28613%29%20562-5664" value="+16135625664" target="_blank">(613) 562-5664</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">Office: SITE, Room 4064</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">e-mail: <a href="mailto:aesmin@gmail.com" target="_blank">aesmin@gmail.com</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<span style="font-family:Times">Brazil: <span> </span><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">Professor of Computer Science</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Times">Department of Computer Science <span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Times">Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) - Brazil<span> </span></span></p></div><div><br></div><br>