[Corpora-List] 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2010): SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Tue Apr 27 21:50:42 UTC 2010

*1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment 
Analysis (WASSA 2010)*

*Call for papers*
Subjectivity and sentiment analysis (opinion mining) are two tasks of 
growing importance in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). 
This is due to their high applicability to real-life domains -- e.g. 
marketing, policy-making, decision-support, e-Government -- but also to 
the fact that they improve other NLP tasks, such as Information 
Extraction, Information Retrieval or Question Answering.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in 
computational linguistics, dealing with subjectivity and sentiment 
analysis, but also from other disciplines related to this area: 
psychologists, sociologists, economists etc., with the objective of 
facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, 
requirements, issues and applications of the study of subjectivity and 
sentiment in the context of traditional and emerging text types. We are 
especially interested in real-life applications, comparisons between 
approaches on different text types, in a monolingual or multilingual 
setting, joint topic and sentiment analysis, creation, annotation and 
evaluation of resources.

*Topics of interest*
We welcome original and unpublished evaluation or position papers on all 
subjectivity and sentiment-related issues. Some suggested topics 
include, but are not limited to:
Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, 
aggregation and summarization
Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment analysis 
Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models. Domain, 
topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis Ambiguity issues and 
word sense disambiguation of subjective language Intrinsic and extrinsic 
evaluation methodologies
Proposals involving the computational treatment of large amounts of data 
Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task Use of Semantic Web 
technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
analysis Annotation schemes for subjectivity and corpora creation 
Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis 
Real-world applications of opinion mining systems.

*Organisers (Co-chairs)*
Andre?s Montoyo, University of Alicante Patricio Marti?nez-Barco, 
University of Alicante Alexandra Balahur, University of Alicante Ester 
Boldrini, University of Alicante

*Program Commitee*
Aurora Pons, CERPAMID, Universidad del Oriente, Cuba
Carlo Strapparava, FBK, Italy
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
Dan Cristea, "A. I. Cuza" University Iasi, Romania
Dan Tufis, RACAI, Romania
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Gu?nter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
Hristo Tanev, EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburg, U.S.A
Jesu?s M. Hermida, University of Alicante, Spain
Jose? Antonio Troyano, University of Seville, Spain
Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Manuel Palomar, University of Alicante, Spain
Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy
Mijail Kabadjov, EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
Mosche Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR Pisa, Italy
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Rafael Mun?oz, University of Alicante, Spain
Ralf Steinberger, EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
Veronique Hoste, University of Ghent, Belgium
Veselyn Stoyanov, Cornell University, U.S.A
Viktor Pekar, University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
Zornitsa Kozareva, Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.

*Invited speaker*
Prof. Michael Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton

*Contact*
Andre?s Montoyo -- montoyo at dlsi.ua.es Patricio Marti?nez-Barco -- 
patricio at dlsi.ua.es Alexandra Balahur - abalahur at dlsi.ua.es Ester 
Boldrini - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es

*Sumissions*
Submissions for WASSA 2010 must not exceed eight (8) pages in camera- 
ready format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. 
Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style; 
details of the style are available at:
http://www.ecai2010.appia.pt/images/documents/ecai2010-style.zip
This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2010", and contains LaTeX and 
other style files. The file "ecai2010.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX 
format using the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template for 
WASSA submissions.
Each accepted paper will be allocated eight (8) pages in the 
proceedings. WASSA 2010 also accepts posters. Each poster will have four 
(4) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same 
formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may indicate whether they 
want a submitted full paper to be considered as well as a submitted 
poster in case of non- acceptance of the full paper.

Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented 
with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author 
names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced by the unique 
tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of 
an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes 
their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published. (Any publication venue with an ISBN or 
ISSN number counts as a formal publication; this includes LNCS/LNAI 
volumes, for example.)
Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI informal proceedings, as 
well as a CD with ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a special 
issue of an ISI- indexed journal (more to be announced).

To submit a paper, please access:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wassa2010

*Important dates:*
Paper submission:May 7, 2010 Notification to authors:June 7, 2010
Camera-ready papers:June 17, 2010 Workshop:August 16, 2010
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