[Corpora-List] CFP: EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks

[Diana Inkpen]

CALL FOR PAPERS

EACL 2012 Workshop on *Semantic Analysis in Social Networks*

April 23, 2012, Avignon, France


Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2012

Website: 
http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2012_social_media_workshop.html 
<http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/%7Ediana/eacl2012_social_media_workshop.html>

Semantic analysis in social networks (SN) is important for applications 
such as understanding and enabling social networks, natural language 
interfaces and human behaviour on the web, e-learning environments, 
cyber communities and educational or online shared workspaces. These 
aspects are also important in security, privacy & identity, opinion 
mining, sentiment analysis, and in the larger area of affective computing.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names 
and researchers involved in text analysis and social networks in the 
context of natural language understanding, natural language generation, 
automatic categorization, topic detection, emotion analysis, and 
applications using computational approaches to process social networks. 
Besides methodologies and techniques for SN analysis, we also encourage 
the submission of papers that experiment with and describe applicative 
contexts in which analysis and detection of affective aspects are useful 
and beneficial.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- semantic analysis in sentences and web content from social networks

- classification of texts by emotion and mood from SN

- sociology of emotions and influence on inter-personal communications

- topic detection and clustering in SN

- SN analysis across different languages

- SN analysis from multimedia (text, speech, video)

- security and privacy issues in SNs

- automatic summarization from multiple sources and multiple languages

- analysis of sentiment and opinion in SN

- information extraction and indexing

- applications in which affective aspects are beneficial

- tools and resources for accessing, representing, and managing social 
network data in natural language processing frameworks (e.g., GATE, UIMA)

- other aspects of the computational treatment of SN and affect.

We would like to invite researchers to submit their original and 
unpublished work to the workshop. Demos of working or under development 
systems are encouraged. We hope to cover three main perspectives: 
government (e.g., security and criminology), industry (e.g., marketing), 
and academic (e.g., theoretical research related to SNs).

We are in negotiations with a journal for a special issue, for selected 
papers from the workshop. An invited speaker for the workshop will be 
chosen at a later date.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission: January 30, 2012

Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2012

Revised version of papers: March 9, 2012

Workshop: April 23, 2012

Submission instructions:

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work 
in the topic area of this workshop.Submissions should be formatted using 
the EACL 2012 stylefiles for latex or MS Word, with blind review and not 
exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page for references. The PDF files will 
be submitted electronically at https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/SASN2012/

Organizing committee:

Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies Inc. and Université de Montréal Canada)

Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Programme Committee:

Colin Cherry (National Research Council, Canada)

Viola Ganter (HITS gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)

Mitsuru Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis)

Wael Khreich (NLP Technologies Inc, Canada)

Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues (University of Porto, Portugal)

Alena Neviarouskaya (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Alexander Osherenko (University of Augsburg, Germany)

Victoria Rubin (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Carlo Strapparava (FBK-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)

Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Alessandro Valitutti (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Simone Teufel (Cambridge University, UK)

Clifford J. Wenstein (MIT, USA)

René Witte (Concordia University, Canada)

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