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Apologies for cross-postings <br>
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As a follow up of the <b>“4th Workshop on Computational Approaches
to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis” (WASSA 2013)</b>
‐ <a href="http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/index.htm">http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/index.htm</a>,
papers are invited that address the topic of <b>"Computational
Approaches to the Retrieval, Mining and Classification of
Affective Texts</b>", for a Special Issue of the Information
Processing and Management Journal (Elsevier). For more information,
please visit: <a
href="http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/cfp/IPM_SI_CfP.pdf">http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/cfp/IPM_SI_CfP.pdf</a><br>
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Possible topics for consideration are:<br>
• Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations 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>
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The <b>deadline for submissions is *15th August 2013*</b> and the
contributions should be submitted via the journal’s online
submission system available through the journal homepage:<br>
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<a
href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management/</a><br>
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or directly via:<br>
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<a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/">http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/</a><br>
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choosing “Comp. Approaches” as the article type from the drop down
menu.<br>
Before submission, please consult the journal guidelines for authors
at: <br>
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<a
href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors</a><br>
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Additional information can be obtained from either of the guest
editors:<br>
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Dr. Alexandra Balahur (European Commission Joint Research Centre),
Dr. Theresa Wilson (John Hopkins University)<br>
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Best regards, <br>
Alexandra Balahur<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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