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Apologies for cross-postings:<br>
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4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment
and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/index.htm">http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/index.htm</a><br>
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Held in conjunction to the NAACL-HLT 2013 conference, on June 14,
2013, in Atlanta, U.S.A.<br>
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ENDORSEMENT<br>
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*** Endorsed by SIGANN – the ACL Special Interest Group for
Annotation<br>
*** Endorsed by SIGNLL - ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural
Language Learning<br>
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SCOPE<br>
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The aim of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013) is to
continue the line of the previous three editions, bringing together
researchers in Computational Linguistics working on Subjectivity and
Sentiment Analysis and researchers working on interdisciplinary
aspects of affect computation from text. Additionally, this year, we
would like to extend the focus to Social Media phenomena and the
impact of affect-related phenomena in this context. <br>
We encourage the submission of long and short research and demo
papers including, but not restricted to the following topics related
to subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis: <br>
• Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media
analysis; (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation<br>
• Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
summarization<br>
• Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and
sentiment analysis techniques<br>
• Data linking through social networks based on affect-related
NLP methods<br>
• Impact of affective data from social media<br>
• Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models<br>
• Online reputation management<br>
• Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
analysis<br>
• Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis<br>
• Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective
language<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 evaluations subjectivity and sentiment
analysis <br>
• Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social
networks <br>
• Classification of stance in dialogues<br>
• Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems<br>
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SUBMISSIONS<br>
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Long papers for WASSA 2013 must not exceed eight (8) pages without
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the NAACL-HLT
2013 Style Files, available at: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/Documents/naaclhlt2013.tgz">http://naacl2013.naacl.org/Documents/naaclhlt2013.tgz</a><br>
Reviewing for WASSA 2013 will be double 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 NAACL-HLT WASSA
proceedings. The best papers will be chosen for a special issue of
an ISI- indexed journal. Previous special issues of WASSA were/are
in the process of being published in the Decision Support Systems
and Computer Speech and Language journals (Elsevier).<br>
To submit a paper, please access:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.softconf.com/naacl2013/WASSA2013/">https://www.softconf.com/naacl2013/WASSA2013/</a><br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Paper due date: March 1 (tentative), 2013<br>
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2013<br>
Camera-ready deadline: April 12, 2013 <br>
Workshop to take place at NAACL-HLT 2013: June 14, 2013<br>
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ORGANIZERS<br>
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Alexandra Balahur<br>
European Commission Joint Research Centre <br>
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alexandra.balahur@jrc.ec.europa.eu">alexandra.balahur@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a> <br>
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Erik van der Goot<br>
European Commission Joint Research Centre <br>
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Erik.van-der-Goot@jrc.ec.europa.eu">Erik.van-der-Goot@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a><br>
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Andrés Montoyo<br>
University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante,
Spain<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:montoyo@dlsi.ua.es">montoyo@dlsi.ua.es</a> <br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE <br>
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• Khurshid Ahmad – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<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 –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 – Google<br>
• Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain<br>
• Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany<br>
• Alena Neviarouskaia – University of Tokyo, Japan<br>
• Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.<br>
• Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.<br>
• Paolo Rosso - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain<br>
• Josef Steinberger – University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic<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>
• 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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<b>Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu, PhD</b><br>
Post-doctoral Researcher<br>
European Commission Joint Research Centre <br>
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen<br>
GlobeSec, OPTIMA<br>
Via E. Fermi 2749<br>
T.P. 267<br>
I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy<br>
Tel: 0039 0332 78 5808<br>
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<i>Disclaimer: "The views expressed are purely those of the writer
and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an
official position of the European Commission."</i></div>
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