20.3774, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Argentina

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Subject: 20.3774, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Argentina

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Date: 04-Nov-2009
From: Horacio Saggion < H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk >
Subject: Workhsop on NLP Tools in Social Sciences

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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:06:15
From: Horacio Saggion [H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk]
Subject: Workhsop on NLP Tools in Social Sciences

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Full Title: Workhsop on NLP Tools  in Social Sciences 

Date: 10-May-2010 - 14-May-2010
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Contact Person: Horacio Saggion
Meeting Email: H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion/horaciowebpage/CFA_NLP_chapter.txt 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2009 

Meeting Description:

1st Workhsop on Natural Language Tools Applied to Discourse Analysis in Psychology
Instituto de Altos Estudios en Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 10th - 14th, 2010

Special Session:  NLP for the Social Sciences 

Call for Paper

Call for Abstracts for a special session: NLP for the Social Sciences

In recent  years, the field of natural language processing  (NLP) has
experienced a renewed interest  in the analysis of non "factual" discourse,
which is characterized by the presence of affective language, sentiments,
opinions, feelings, believes, and manifestations of emotional states, and which
is charged with subjectivity. There are not only interesting theoretical issues
which deserve scientific study such as what makes a discourse subjective, or how
to discriminate between emotional states in text or speech, but also practical
applications (e.g., dialogue systems, question answering, summarization,
extraction) may benefit from those studies. Thus, we are calling for
contributions which will bring together the areas of Natural Language Processing
and the Social Sciences.

Main Topics:
- Natural Language Processing in Psychology
- Electronic Language Resources for the Social Sciences (e.g., dictionaries,
lexicons, grammars)  
- Natural Language Processing of non-factual Discourse
- Natural Language Processing in the analysis of Political Discourse 
- Automatic Analysis of Emotional Discourse
- Automatic Detection of Sentiments and Opinions
- Other topics related to the study and application of NLP to psychology and
more generally the social sciences

Format of Submission:
At this stage we are soliciting abstracts (in pdf)  of between 1000-1500 words.
The abstract should include:
- Title
- Authors and affiliations
- Contact e-mail
- 1000-1500 words (about 4 pages) including text, figures, and tables
- References

Language of the abstract: English or Spanish

Detailed submission instructions will be specified together with notifications
to the authors.

Workshop Dates: 10th May-14th May 2010.
Tentative Submission date: 10th December 2009
Notification to the Authors (accept/reject letters): 26 February 2010
Camera Ready Copy: 26 March 2010

Where to submit your contribution:
Send your pdf abstract by e-mail to Dr. Horacio Saggion 
(at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion you will find the address where to send
your contribution).
The subject of your e-mail should be "NLP4PSYCHO abstract". You will receive
acknowledgment of reception of your contributions within two days of submission.

Organizer: Horacio Saggion

Programme Committee (tentative)

- Laura Alonso i Alemani (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
- Jose Alvarez (Universidad Austral, Argentina)
- John Atkinson (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
- Javier  Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
- Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil)
- Iria da Cunha (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Gabriel Infante-Lopez (Uiversidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
- Gerardo Sierra MartÃnez (UNAM, Mexico)
- Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
- Rogelio Nazar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Thiago Pardo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Rene Venegas  (Pontificia Universidad CatÃ³lica de ValparaÃso, Chile) 
- Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
- Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (UPRGS, Brazil)
- Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
- Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

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