[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: 3rd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2013)

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Dear All,

Please forward this call for paper to your colleagues and interested people.

Thank you in advance,

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1st Call for Paper

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*3r**d Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 201**
3**) *

- A collocated event at IJCNLP 2013, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan

October 14, 2013

Call for Papers: http://saaip.org/

Submission Deadline:  July 9, 2013

Objectives <http://saaip.org/index.html>

In recent times, research activities in the areas of Opinion, Sentiment
and/or Emotion in natural language texts and other media are gaining ground
under the umbrella of subjectivity analysis and affect computing. The
reason may be the huge amount of available text data in the Social Web in
the forms of news, reviews, blogs, chats and even twitter. Though Sentiment
analysis from natural language text is a multifaceted and multidisciplinary
problem, in general, the term “sentiment” is used in reference to the
automatic analysis of evaluative text. Research efforts are being carried
out for identification of positive or negative polarity of evaluative text
and for development of devices that recognize human affect, display and
model emotions from textual contents. Techniques from Artificial
Intelligence play important roles in these tasks.

The main four aspects of the sentiment analysis problem are Object
identification, Feature extraction, Orientation classification and
Integration. The existing reported solutions or available systems are still
far from being perfect or fail to meet the satisfaction level of the end
users. The main issue may be that there are many conceptual rules that
govern sentiment and there are even more clues (possibly unlimited) that
can convey these concepts from realization to verbalization of a human
being. Human psychology may provide the unrevealed clues and govern the
sentiment realization. The important issues that need attention include how
various psychological phenomena can be explained in computational terms and
which AI concepts and computer modeling methodologies will prove most
useful from the psychologist's point of view.

In addition to Question Answering or Information Retrieval systems,
Topic-sentiment analysis is being applied as a new research method for mass
opinion estimation (e.g., reliability, validity, sample bias), psychiatric
treatment, corporate reputation measurement, political orientation
categorization, stock market prediction, customer preference or public
opinion study and so on.

In recent times, regular research papers continue to be published in
reputed conferences like ACL, EMNLP or COLING. The Sentiment Analysis
Symposiums are also drawing the attention of the research communities from
every nook and corner of the world. There has been an increasing number of
efforts in shared tasks such as SemEval 2007 Task#14: Affective
Text<http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/tasks/task14/summary.shtml>,
SemEval 2013 Task#14:Sentiment Analysis on Twitter, TAC 2008 Opinion
Summarization task<http://www.nist.gov/tac/2008/summarization/op.summ.08.guidelines.html>,
TREC-BLOG tracks <http://trec.nist.gov/data/blog.html> since 2006 and
relevant NTCIR tracks<http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws6/OnlineProceedings/NTCIR/index.html#Opinion>since
6th NTCIR aimed to focus on different issues of opinion and emotion
analysis. Several communities from sentiment analysis have engaged
themselves to conduct relevant conferences, e.g., Affective Computing and
Intelligent Interfaces (ACII) in 2009 and 2011
<http://www.acii2011.org/>and workshops such as “Sentiment
and Subjectivity in Text” in COLING-ACL
2006<http://people.csail.mit.edu/ozlem/call_for_papers_affect.txt%5C>,
“Sentiment Analysis – Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT)”
in LREC 2008 <http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html>, Opinion
Mining and Sentiment Analysis (WOMSA)
2009<http://sites.google.com/site/womsa09/>,
“Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement (TSA)” in CIKM
2009<http://sites.google.com/site/tsa2009workshop/>,
“Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text” in
NAACL 2010<http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/naacl2010_EmotionWorkshop.html>,
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
(WASSA) in ECAI 2010 , ACL
2011<http://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/2nd-workshop-computational-approaches-subjectivity-and-sentiment-analysis>and
ACL 2012, FLAIRS
2011 special track on “Affect Computing” <http://www.flairs-24.info/>,
Sentiment
Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction
(SENTIRE 2011 and SENTIRE 2012), EMOTION SENTIMENT & SOCIAL SIGNALS (ES³
2012) in the satellite of LREC 2012, Practice and Theory of Opinion Mining
and Sentiment Analysis in conjunction with KONVENS-2012 (PATHOS-2012),
Intelligent Approaches applied to Sentiment Mining and Emotion
Analysis *(*WISMEA,
2012*), *Workshop on “Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining
(WISDOM, 2012) and a bunch of special sessions like Sentiment Analysis for
Asian Languages (SAAL, 2012), Brain Inspired Natural Language Processing
(BINLP, 2012), Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing
(ACEIP, 2012) and so on.

Since our previous two workshops in conjunction with the International
Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP) in Chiang Mai, Thailand during Nov. 7-13,
2011 and with the International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING) in Mumbai, India during Dec. 8-15, 2012 were quite successful
(with 20 and 14 submissions and more than 30 participants from many
countries), we are planning to conduct our next workshop in conjunction with
the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP) in Nagoya, Japan during
Oct. 14-19, 2013

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of the
workshop, the warm responses and feedbacks we received from the
participants and attendees and the final outcome, the purpose of the
proposed 3rd edition of the Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets
Psychology (SAAIP 2013) is to create a framework for presenting and
discussing the challenges related to sentiment, opinion and emotion
analysis in the ground of NLP.

This workshop aims to bring together the researchers in multiple
disciplines such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, social
science and many more who are interested in developing next generation
machines that can recognize and respond to the sentimental states of the
human users. The workshop will consist of a set of invited talks and
presentations of technical papers that will be selected after peer review
from the submissions received.

List of Topics <http://saaip.org/index.html>

We welcome original and unpublished submissions on all aspects of sentiment
analysis. Topics include, but are not limited to

   - New models of sentiment: its origin in the speaker's goals and
   intentions, its
   signaling in the text, and its relationships to the objects in question
   - Psychological models for sentiment analysis
   - Topic-dependent/independent sentiment identification.
   - Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
   - Domain, topic and genre, language  dependency of sentiment analysis
   - Discourse analysis of sentiment
   - Opinion, Sentiment, Emotion extraction, categorization and aggregation
   - Sentiment corpora and annotation
   - Sentiment lexicon
   - Applications of sentiment analysis specially in Social Networking
   - Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
   - Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

Workshop Organizers

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*Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)*

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032, India.

Phone: +91 33 2414 6648

Email Address: sbandyopadhyay at cse.jdvu.ac.in, sivaji_cse_ju at yahoo.com

* *

*Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)*

Professor, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory,

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Email Address: oku at pi.titech.ac.jp

Important Dates

·         Submissions Deadline: July 9, 2013

·         Notification of Acceptances: August 9, 2013

·         Camera ready submissions: August 23, 2013

·         Workshop Date: October 14, 2013

Instruction to Authors:

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be
included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the
attendees. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

There will be two categories of papers:

·         Regular papers: Eight pages (8) is the maximum length of full
papers for the IJCNLP-2013 workshop. Up to two (2) additional pages may be
used for references only (appendices count against the eight pages, not the
additional one page).

·         Short papers: Short paper should not exceed four (4) pages of
main text. Up to two (2) additional pages may be used for references only
(appendices count against the four pages, not the additional one page).

Papers that do not conform to the specified length and formatting
requirements are subject to be rejected without review. All accepted papers
will have equal status in the proceedings. Authors will decide whether
their papers are regular or short depending on their length. Paper
submissions should follow the two-column format of IJCNLP, conforming to
the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style available here (
http://saaip.org/submission.html) and conforming to the instructions to
authors. Submissions must be electronic in PDF.

Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2013/SAAIP2013/

-- 
With warm regards,

Braja Gopal Patra
Junior Research Fellow,
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata-700032
India
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