[Corpora-List] [Call for Participation] 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) @ACL 2014

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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and 
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) - http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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Held in conjunction to ACL 2014, on June 27, 2014, in Baltimore 
(Maryland), USA
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Endorsed by SIGSEM and SIGNLL
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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

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Dr. Saif Mohammad - National Research Council Canada - "Words: 
Evaluative, Emotional, Colorful, Musical!"

Dr. Myle Ott - Facebook - "Linguistic Models of Deceptive Opinion Spam"

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PROGRAM
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The program of the workshop is available from: 
http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/cfp/program.pdf

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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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* Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy

* Erik Cambria - University of Stirling, U.K.

* Fermin Cruz Mata - University of Seville, Spain

* Montse Cuadros - Vicomtech, Spain

* Leon Derczynski - University of Sheffield, U.K.

* Michael Gamon - Microsoft

* Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium

* Ruben Izquierdo Bevia - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Isa Maks - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield, U.K.

* Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.

* Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada

* Karo Moilanen - University of Oxford, U.K.

* Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany

* Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

* Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

* Jose-Manuel Perea-Ortega - European Commission Joint Research Centre, 
Italy

* Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain

* Josef Steinberger - West Bohemia University Prague, The Czech Republic

* Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

* Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania

* Alfonso Ureña - University of Jaén, Spain

* Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

* Michael Wiegand - Saarland University, Germany

* Taras Zagibalov - Brantwatch, U.K.

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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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