20.4282, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Argentina

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Subject: 20.4282, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Argentina

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Date: 11-Dec-2009
From: Horacio Saggion < H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk >
Subject: Workshop on NLP Tools in Social Sciences

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:46:22
From: Horacio Saggion [H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on NLP Tools in Social Sciences

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Full Title: Workshop on NLP Tools in Social Sciences 

Date: 10-May-2010 - 14-May-2010
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Contact Person: Horacio Saggion
Meeting Email: H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion/horaciowebpage/CFA_NLP_chapter.txt 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 04-Jan-2010 

Meeting Description:

1st Workshop on Natural Language Tools Applied to Discourse Analysis in Psychology
Instituto de Altos Estudios en Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 10th - 14th, 2010

Special Session:  NLP for the Social Sciences 

Call for Papers

The deadline has been postponed to 4th January

Call for Abstracts for a special session on NLP for the Social Sciences

In recent  years, the field  of natural language processing  (NLP) has
experienced  a  renewed interest  in  the  analysis  of non  "factual"
discourse,  which  is  characterised  by  the  presence  of  affective language,
sentiments, opinions, feelings, believes, and manifestations of emotional
states, and which is charged with subjectivity. There are not only interesting
theoretical issues which deserve scientific study such  as what  makes a 
discourse subjective,  or how  to discriminate between  emotional  states  in 
text  or speech,  but  also  practical applications    (e.g.,   dialogue   
systems,    question   answering, summarization, extraction)  may benefit  from
those studies.  Thus, we are calling for  contributions which will bring
together  the areas of Natural Language Processing and the Social Sciences.

Main Topics:
-  Natural Language Processing in Psychology
-  Electronic Language Resources for the Social Sciences (e.g., dictionaries,
lexicons, grammars)  
-  Natural Language Processing of non-factual Discourse
-  Natural Language Processing in the analysis of Political Discourse 
-  Automatic Analysis of Emotional Discourse
-  Automatic Detection of Sentiments and Opinions
-  Other topics related to the study and application of NLP to psychology and
 more generally the social sciences

Format of Submission:
At this stage we are soliciting abstracts (in pdf)  of between 1000-1500 words.
The abstract should include:
- Title
- Authors and affiliations
- Contact e-mail
- 1000-1500 words (about 4 pages) including text, figures, and tables
- References

Language of the abstract: English or Spanish

Detailed submission instructions will be specified together with notifications
 to the authors.

Workshop Dates: 10th May - 14th May 2010.
Submission date: 4th January 2010
Notification to the Authors (accept/reject letters): 26 February 2010
Camera Ready Copy: 26 March 2010

Where to submit your contribution:

Send your pdf abstract by e-mail  to Dr. Horacio Saggion 
(at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion you will find the address where to send
your contribution).
The subject of your e-mail should be "NLP4PSYCHO abstract".
You will receive acknowledgment of reception of your contributions within two
days of submission.

Organizer: Horacio Saggion

Programme Committee
-  Laura Alonso y Alemani (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
-  Jose Alvarez (Universidad Austral, Argentina)
-  John Atkinson (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
-  Javier  Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
-  Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil)
-  Iria da Cunha (Universidad de Avignon/Universidad Pompeu Fabra, France/Spain)
-  Gabriel Infante-Lopez (Uiversidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
-  David Martinez (University of Melbourne, Australia)
-  Diego Molla-Aliod (Macquarie University, Australia)
-  Gerardo Sierra Martinez (UNAM, Mexico)
-  Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
-  Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno (Universidad de Avignon, France)
-  Rogelio Nazar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
-  Thiago Pardo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
-  Rene Venegas  (Pontificia Universidad CatÃ³lica de ValparaÃso, Chile) 
-  Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
-  Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
-  Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
-  Mãity Siqueira (UFRGS, Brazil)
-  Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (UPRGS, Brazil)
-  Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
-  Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

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