31.3699, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3699. Wed Dec 02 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3699, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:04:11
From: Orphee De Clercq [orphee.declercq at ugent.be]
Subject: 11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

 
Full Title: 11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis 
Short Title: WASSA2021 

Date: 19-Apr-2021 - 20-Apr-2021
Location: Online, Ukraine 
Contact Person: Orphée De Clercq
Meeting Email: orphee.declercq at ugent.be
Web Site: https://wt-public.emm4u.eu/wassa2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

Building on previous editions, the aim of WASSA 2021 is to bring together
researchers working on Subjectivity, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Detection and
Classification and their applications to other NLP or real-world tasks (e.g.
public health messaging, fake news, media impact analysis) and researchers
working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation from text.


Call for Papers: 

We strongly encourage submissions that tackle sentiment or emotion detection
and classification in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this edition,
we encourage the submission of long and short research and demo papers
including, but not restricted to the following topics:

- Public sentiments and communication patterns of public health emergencies,
e.g. COVID-19
- Resources for subjectivity, sentiment, emotion and social media analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and summarization
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity, sentiment and emotion
analysis
- Humor, Irony and Sarcasm detection
- The role of emotion and affective phenomena in dis/misinformation
- Online reputation management
- Aspect and topic-based sentiment analysis
- Transfer learning for domain, language and genre portability of sentiment
analysis
- Modelling commonsense knowledge for subjectivity, sentiment or emotion
analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Detecting and quantifying the emotional effect of factual arguments
- Application of theories from other related fields to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis
- Implicit sentiment and bias analysis in newswire text
- Multimodal emotion detection and classification

At WASSA 2021, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short papers.

The link for submission of papers will be available soon; please check our
website for updates. 

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: January 18, 2021
- Notification: February 18, 2021
- Camera-ready deadline: March 1, 2021
- Workshop date: To be confirmed (April 19 or 20, 2021)

For more information, please refer to the workshop website:
https://wt-public.emm4u.eu/wassa2021/




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