[Corpora-List] [WASSA 2012@ ACL 2012] 1st CfP: 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis

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/****3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and 
Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012)***
****Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea)***/

**1st Call for Papers**

/*AIM OF THE WORKSHOP*/

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks 
in Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has 
flourished in the past years, as the Social Web made it possible for 
people all over the world to express, comment or consult opinions on any 
given topic. The fact that so many people express themselves on these 
topics makes opinions less biased and more credible; their subjective 
nature makes them easily understandable by all people and leads to their 
growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these reasons, 
opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for 
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business 
intelligence processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining 
unbiased, massive feedback.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years, 
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex, 
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its 
challenges include the need to address the issue from different 
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics 
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application 
for which the analysis is done.
Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd  
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment 
Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to continue the line of the previous two 
editions, bringing together researchers in Computational Linguistics 
working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and, more generally, on 
affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect-related 
phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as 
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to 
facilitate 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 envisage WASSA as 
a forum to discuss the achievements obtained so far and to analyse the 
different approaches to tackle the difficulties researchers are 
confronted with in this research area.

/*TOPICS OF INTEREST*/

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions  of the 
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA 
2010 and WASSA 2.011) and the final outcome, the purpose of the 3rd 
edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and 
Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to create a framework for presenting 
and discussing the challenges related to subjectivity and sentiment 
analysis in NLP, from an interdisciplinary theoretical and practical 
perspective.

Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not 
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment 
analysis:
.    Resources for subjectivity and sentiment analysis
.    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
.    The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
.    Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
.    Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment 
analysis
.    Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
.    Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity 
and sentiment analysis
.    Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
.    Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment 
analysis techniques
.    Classification of stance in dialogues
.    Real-world applications of opinion mining systems
We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems, 
thus giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their 
achievements and issues. At the same time, with the help of demos, we 
aim at enriching the discussion forum with application-specific topics 
for debate.

/*ORGANIZERS*/

.    Alexandra Balahur -- European Commission Joint Research Centre, 
Italy -- alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu
.    Andrés Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain -- montoyo at dlsi.ua.es
.    Patricio Martínez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain - 
patricio at dlsi.ua.es
.    Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es

/*PROGRAM COMMITTEE */

.    Khurshid Ahmad -- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
.    Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
.    Erik Cambria -- University of Stirling, U.K.
.    José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
.    Michael Gamon -- Microsoft
.    Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
.    Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
.    Mijail Kabadjov -- Vicomtech, Spain
.    Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
.    Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
.    Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
.    Karo Moilanen -- Google
.    Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain
.    Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
.    Alena Neviarouskaia -- University of Tokyo, Japan
.    Manabu Okumura -- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
.    Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
.    Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
.    Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
.    Paolo Rosso - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
.    Josef Steinberger -- EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
.    Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
.    Veselin Stoyanov -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
.    Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
.    Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
.    José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
.    Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
.    Alfonso Ureña -- University of Jaén, Spain
.    Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
.    Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
.    Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
.    Michael Wiegand -- Saarland University, Germany
.    Theresa Wilson -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
.    Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.

/*SUBMISSIONS*/

Two types of contributions can be submitted to WASSA 2012: long and 
short papers:

.    Long papers
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two 
(2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.
.    Short papers
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) 
additional pages of references. The following types of papers are 
appropriate for a short paper submission (similar to the ACL 2012 
conference):
1.    A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2.    A small, focused contribution
3.    Work in progress
4.    A negative result
5.    An opinion piece
6.    An interesting application nugget
Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice 
of presentation will be given not based on the quality of the 
submission, but on the PC's recommendation relating to the most suitable 
presentation method.
All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the 
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at: http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented 
with the identity of paper authors. 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.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with 
ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- 
indexed journal (TBA).

/*IMPORTANT DATES*/

Mar 11, 2012:Paper submission deadline
Apr 15, 2012:Notification of acceptance
Apr 30, 2012:Camera-ready deadline
Jul 12 or Jul 13, 2012:Workshop to take place at ACL 2012

For more information, please visit: 
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/ or follow us on Twitter 
#WASSA_2012 !

Greetings,
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Dr. Alexandra Balahur
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749
I-21027 Ispra (VA)
Italy

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