[Corpora-List] [CfP - Deadline Extension] 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu
alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu
Wed Mar 19 13:09:23 UTC 2014
Apologies for cross-postings.
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//Due to several requests, the deadline has been extended to March 30th. /
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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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BACKGROUND
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Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as
subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks
was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that
made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or
consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions,
sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown
to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide.
SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g.
marketing, eGovernance, business intelligent, social analysis) and also
to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- information
extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few.
The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of
approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the
interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology,
Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology.
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.
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ENVISAGED SCOPE OF WASSA 2014
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The aim of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) is to
continue the line of the previous editions, bringing together
researchers in Computational Linguistics working on Subjectivity and
Sentiment Analysis and researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects
of affect computation from text. Additionally, starting with WASSA 2013,
we extended the focus to Social Media phenomena and the impact of
affect-related phenomena in this context. In this new proposed edition,
we would like to encourage the submission of long and short research and
demo papers including, but not restricted to the following topics
related to subjectivity and sentiment analysis:
. Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis;
(semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
. Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
summarization
. Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
analysis techniques
. Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
methods
. Impact of affective data from social media
. Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models
. Online reputation management
. Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
analysis
. Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
. Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
. 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 evaluations subjectivity and sentiment
analysis
. Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
. Classification of stance in dialogues
. Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems
In addition, in the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis
systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years,
we feel there is a growing need to make users familiar with these
systems and have them employed for building an end application.
To this aim, we would like to organize a "Hackathon" (please see details
below).
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SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HACKATHON
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In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to
introduce some.
The activity will be open to all the people who will sign up for the
workshop.
We plan to organize a half a day session, in the first half presenting
the participating systems and their use and creating teams for
"application" development and leaving the second half of the day for
working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the
participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and
reward the winner with a gadget.
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ORGANIZERS
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Alexandra Balahur
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu
Erik van der Goot
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Erik.van-der-Goot at jrc.ec.europa.eu
Ralf Steinberger
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu
Andrés Montoyo
University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
montoyo at dlsi.ua.es
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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. 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, U.S.A.
. Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
. Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
. Mijail Kabadjov -- University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. 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
. Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. 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.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- EXTENDED Paper submission deadline : March 30, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2014
- Camera-ready deadline: April 29, 2014
- Workshop to take part at ACL 2014: June 27, 2014
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SUBMISSIONS
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We encourage the submission of long, short and demo papers (especially
describing systems participating in the hackathon)
Long papers for WASSA 2014 must not exceed eight (8) pages without
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ACL 2014
Style Files, available at:
Reviewing for WASSA 2014 will be double 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. The best
papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- indexed journal.
Previous special issues of WASSA were/are in the process of being
published in the Decision Support Systems, Computer Speech and Language
and Information Processing and Management journals (Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/WASSA/
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*/Alexandra Balahur, PhD /*
Scientific/Technical Project Officer
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen
GlobeSec, EMM Team
Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Tel.: 0039 0332 78 5808
/Disclaimer: "The views expressed are solely of the writer and may in no
case be seen as stating an official position of the European Commission."/
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