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Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), ICDM11 workshop on opinion mining and Sentiment Analysis (Erik Cambria)

Abstract:
Memory and data capacities double approximately every two years and, apparently, the Web is following the same rule. User-generated contents, in particular, are an ever-growing source of opinion and sentiments which are continuously spread worldwide through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. The distillation of knowledge from such sources is a key factor for applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education and health, but the quantity and the nature of the contents they generate make it a very difficult task.
Existing approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis can be grouped into four main categories: keyword spotting, in which text is classified into categories based on the presence of fairly unambiguous words; lexical affinity, which assigns arbitrary words a probabilistic affinity for a particular topic; statistical methods, which calculate the valence of keywords, punctuation and word co-occurrence frequencies on the base of a large training corpus; finally Sentic Computing, which uses affective ontologies and common sense reasoning tools for a concept-level analysis of natural language text. 
The main aim of SENTIRE (Latin for feel, root of words such as sentiment and sensation) is to explore the new frontiers of opinion mining and sentiment analysis by proposing novel techniques in fields such as AI, Semantic Web, knowledge-based systems, adaptive and transfer learning, in order to more efficiently retrieve and extract social information from the Web.

Topics of Interest:
SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web Mining, AI, Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. In addition to paper presentations, an invited talk will be solicited to stress the interdisciplinary challenges of opinion mining and sentiment analysis.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Opinion & sentiment summarization and visualization
- Explicit and latent semantic analysis for opinion & sentiment mining
- Knowledge base construction and integration with opinion & sentiment analysis
- Transfer learning of opinion & sentiment with knowledge bases
- Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis
- Opinion & sentiment extraction and retrieval

Schedule:
- July 23, 2011: Due date for full workshop papers
- September 20, 2011: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- October 11, 2011: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 10, 2011: Workshop date

Submissions:
Papers submitted to this workshop must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conference or journal. Papers must be formatted to IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style. For detailed formatting and submission guidelines please visit ICDM11 website.

Proceedings:
Accepted papers will be published in ICDM SENTIRE proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at SENTIRE will be published in a follow-on Special Issue of Springer's Cognitive Computation journal.

Program Committee:
- Alexandra Balahur, University of Alicante (Spain)
- Sandra Baldassarri, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
- Eva Cerezo, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
- Praphul Chandra, HP Labs India (India)
- Sergio Decherchi, Italian Institute of Technology (Italy)
- Tariq Durrani, University of Strathclyde (UK)
- Marco Grassi, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
- Isabelle Hupont, Aragon Institute of Technology (Spain)
- Kenneth Kwok, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
- Jinhu Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- Saif Mohammad, National Research Council (Canada)
- Muaz Niazi, University of Stirling (UK)
- Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
- Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
- Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
- Jose Troyano, University of Seville (Spain)
- Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Organizers:
- Erik Cambria, University of Stirling (UK)
- Yangqiu Song, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
- Catherine Havasi, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)
- Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)

Erik Cambria
EPSRC CASE Researcher

mail: eca at cs.stir.ac.uk
web: cs.stir.ac.uk/~eca

Cognitive Signal and Image Processing Research Laboratory
Department of Computing Science and Mathematics
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA - UK
The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

On 8 May 2011, at 18:00, corpora-request at uib.no wrote:

> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1.  Teaching Fellow in English Language, Leeds University
>      (Eric Atwell)
>   2.  CFP: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing: corpus	development
>      for pharmacogenomics (Kevin B. Cohen)
>   3.  CFP 2nd Workshop on Statistical Parsing of
>      Morphologically-Rich Languages (SPMRL2011) (DJamé Seddah)
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 15:50:30 +0100 (BST)
> From: Eric Atwell <csc6ea at leeds.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Teaching Fellow in English Language, Leeds
> 	University
> To: corpora at uib.no
> 
>  Teaching Fellow in English Language, Leeds University
>  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/
>  http://ig29.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_universityofleeds01.asp?newms=jj&id=70105&newlang=1
> 
> The School of English at Leeds has a long history of research and
> teaching in English Language. There is a Single Honours English Language
> stream, and Language is a compulsory element in the curriculum of
> students doing our undergraduate degree in English Language and
> Literature. The holders of these fixed-term posts will join Dr Jo Close,
> Dr Fiona Douglas, Dr Christiana Gregoriou, Dr Alison Johnson and
> Professor Clive Upton. You will be expected to play a substantial part
> in English Language teaching at undergraduate level within the School,
> and an ability to teach on core modules in the history and/or the
> worldwide spread of English will be an advantage. You will also deliver
> an option module, and will be required to undertake administrative
> responsibilities associated with teaching and examining.
> 
> University Grade 7 (£29,972 - £35,788 p.a. pro-rata.)
> 
> Informal enquiries may be made to Mr Max Broady, tel +44 (0)113 343
> 4229, email M.E.Broady at leeds.ac.uk
> 
> Closing Date: 3 June 2011
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 16:13:04 -0600
> From: "Kevin B. Cohen" <kevin.cohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] CFP: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing: corpus
> 	development for pharmacogenomics
> To: Corpora List <corpora at uib.no>
> 
> This CFP specifically calls for work on corpus development, so it seemed
> appropriate for the CORPORA list.
> 
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2012
> 
> Text and Knowledge Mining for Pharmacogenomics: Genotype-phenotype-drug
> relationships
> 
> http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/PSB2012/index.shtml
> 
> The technical area of this session is text and knowledge mining for
> pharmacogenomics, particularly focusing on genotype-phenotype-drug
> relationships.  Broad categories of work that have been well-studied in the
> past are included, specifically text mining and reasoning, but submissions
> are restricted to applications of that work to the constrained area of
> pharmacogenomics, and particularly genotype-phenotype-drug relationships.
> For example, topics that are solicited include:
> 
> -Relation extraction between genotypes, phenotypes, and drugs, and other
> semantic classes relevant to pharmacogenomics
> - Corpus development for pharmacogenomics text mining
> - Work on the corpus of documents linked to by PharmGKB
> - Reasoning systems applied over the PharmGKB knowledge base
> 
> Work on gene taggers would not be considered for inclusion.  However, work
> on named entity taggers for other relevant semantic classes, such as drugs
> and phenotypes, would be considered responsive to the call for papers.
> 
> This is a full session, not a workshop, and all accepted papers will be
> published in the PSB proceedings and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE.  PSB has
> long been considered a high-prestige conference for publication of BioNLP
> papers, and some of the papers from PSB NLP sessions have gone on to be
> quite influential, such as Fukuda et  al. (1998) on gene mentions and
> Schwartz and Hearst (2003) on abbreviation definitions.
> 
> IMPORTANT DATES
> 
> - Paper submissions due: July 18, 2011, midnight Pacific (note that this is
> a one-week extension past the normal PSB deadline)
> - Notification of paper acceptance: September 9, 2011
> - Final paper deadline: September 23, 2011, midnight PT
> - Meeting: January 3-7, 2012
> 
> SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
> 
> Please see http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/PSB2012/submission.shtml.
> 
> ORGANIZERS
> 
> Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, U. Colorado School of Medicine
> Yael Garten, Stanford University
> Nigam Shah, Stanford University
> Udo Hahn, Universitat Jena
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, PhD
> Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead, Computational Bioscience Program,
> U. Colorado School of Medicine
> 303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)
> http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 05:18:59 +0200
> From: DJamé Seddah <djame.seddah at free.fr>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] CFP 2nd Workshop on Statistical Parsing of
> 	Morphologically-Rich Languages (SPMRL2011)
> To: Corpora at uib.no
> 
> ** Apologies for cross-posting **
> 
> ======================================================================
> FIRST CALL FOR PAPER: 
> Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL 2011)
> (https://sites.google.com/site/spmrl2011/)
> 
> Collocated with IWPT 2011, October 5-7, 2011, ( http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/iwpt/ )
> 
> ======================================================================
> IMPORTANT DATES
> ------------
> Submission deadline: July 31, 2011  (PDT, GMT-8) . 
> Notification to authors: September 5, 2011
> Camera ready copy: September 20, 2011
> Workshop: October 6, 2011
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
> PRESENTATION
> ---------
> Since the advent of large syntactically annotated corpora, statistical
> parsing has been a cornerstone of research in NLP. While Penn Treebank
> parsing performance, be it dependency-based or constituency-based, seems
> to have reached a high plateau, the same cannot be said of other
> languages, data sets and domains.
> 
> Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages (MRLs) has
> repeatedly been shown to exhibit a plethora of nontrivial challenges,
> including sparse lexica in the face of rich inflectional systems, parsing
> deficiency in the face of free word order and tree- bank annotation
> idiosyncrasies in the face of morphosyntactic interactions.
> Recent studies on parsing languages such as German, Arabic, Hebrew or
> French using newly available treebanks contribute to our understanding of
> the extent of the difficulty that such phenomena pose when reusing parsing
> models initially designed to parse English.  Beyond the technical and
> linguistic difficulties, the lack of communication between researchers
> working on different MRLs can lead to a reinventing the wheel syndrome.
> 
> Following the warm reception of the first SPMRL workshop at NAACL-HLT
> 2010, the second SPMRL workshop aims to build upon the success of the
> first and offer a platform to this growing community of interests. We
> solicit papers describing parsing experiments with models and
> architectures for languages with morphological structure richer than
> English, or studies that address the lexical sparseness challenges (for
> any language).
> In order to provide a realistic indication of the performance of parsing 
> systems on unstructured and unanalyzed data, we particularly encourage 
> contributions reporting parsing results for non-gold as well as gold 
> morphological analysis of the test data, before or jointly with the parser. 
> 
> The areas of interest of the second SPMRL workshop include, but are not
> limited to, the following list of topics:
> * Parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate morphological
> analysis and parsing
> * Parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and the
> handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge or
> through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques
> * Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strength and
> weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
> morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom ...)
> * Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various parsing
> models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic) phenomena with
> respect to  variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and additional data
> transformations
> 
> 
> SUBMISSION
> ------
> Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 9 pages + references) and
> short papers (up to 5 pages + references). Long papers should describe
> unpublished, substantial and completed research.  Short papers should be
> position papers, papers describing work in progress or short, focused
> contributions.
> Papers will be accepted until  July 25, 2011, (PDT, GMT-8)   in PDF format
> via the START system : https://www.softconf.com/c/spmrl2011/ 
> Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formating guidelines
> available from the last ACL-HLT recommendations
> (http://www.acl2011.org/authors.shtml). As the reviewing will be blind,
> the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations.
> Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We
> previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use
> citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that
> do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In
> addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the
> review process is complete.
> 
> 
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
> ----------
> Marie Candito, Yoav Goldberg, Jennifer Foster, Ines Rehbein,  Djamé
> Seddah, Lamia Tounsi, Reut Tsarfaty, Yannick Versley
> 
> 
> REVIEW COMMITTEE
> ----------------
> Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
> Bernd Bohnet  (University of Stuttgart, Germany) 
> Adriane Boyd (Ohio State University, US)
> Marie Candito (University of Paris 7,  France)
> Ozlem Cetinoglu (Dublin City University, Ireland)
> Grzegorz Chrupala  (Saarland University, Germany) 
> Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7,  France)
> Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland) 
> Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland) 
> Yoav Goldberg (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
> Deirdre Hogan (Dublin City University, Ireland) 
> Samar Husan (Inter. Institute of Information Technology, India)
> Sandra Kübler  (Indiana University, US)
> Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)   
> Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
> Joseph Le Roux (Université de la Méditérranée, France) 
> Wolfgang Maier (University of Tübingen, Germany) 
> Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Resarch Center, US)
> Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Toyko, Japan)
> Yusuke Miyao (University of Toyko, Japan) 
> Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
> Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
> Ines Rehbein  (Saarland University, Germany) 
> Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
> Benoit Sagot (Inria Rocquencourt, France)
> Djamé Seddah (University of Paris Sorbonne, France)
> Nicolas Stroppa (Google Research Zurich, Switzerland)
> Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland) 
> Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden) 
> Yannick Versley (University of Tübingen, Germany)
> 
> ORGANIZERS 
> -------
> Djamé Seddah, Université Paris-Sorbonne
> Reut Tsarfaty, Uppsala University
> Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University
> 
> INVITED SPEAKER
> -----
> * TBA
> 
> DISCUSSION PANEL 
> -----
> * TBA
> 
> 
> CONTACTS
> -------
> website: https://sites.google.com/site/spmrl2011/
> mail: spmrl2011 at gmail.com
> 
> SPONSORS 
> -----
> This workshop is sponsored by SIGPARSE  and  by the INRIA's Alpage project.
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