27.230, Calls: Applied Ling/Solvenia

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Subject: 27.230, Calls: Applied Ling/Solvenia

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:45:07
From: Raffaella Panizzon [raffaella.panizzon at unipd.it]
Subject: LREC 2016 Worskshop: Emotions, Metaphors, Ontology & Terminology During Disasters

Full Title: LREC 2016 Worskshop: Emotions, Metaphors, Ontology & Terminology During Disasters 
Short Title: EMOT 

Date: 24-May-2016 - 24-May-2016
Location: Portoroz, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Khurshid Ahmad
Meeting Email: kahmad at scss.tcd.ie
Web Site: http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/media/filer_public/2015/12/22/cfp-emot.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

EMOT at LREC 2016 will look at how emotions are articulated in text-based
communications where there are many senders (and receivers) of messages
communicating on a single emotive topic over a short period of time – usually
a few days. Disasters of a great variety, including financial crises,
weather-related events, and terror-motivated incidents, motivate senders and
receivers to exchange news and views through formal media and lately through
social media. These news and views comprise considerable emotive content; use
of emoticons in text messages is an innovative device. The news includes
alerts and warnings from the authorities to the actual and potential victims
of a disaster, and now social media allows victims to send information to
their cohorts and to the authorities. The views are in opinion columns of
newspapers and in blogs and twitter messages – mainly from the victims to the
authorities, to affirm the messages sent by others and to criticise the news
and views. 

Metaphors are used in these communications: avalanches, earthquakes, floods
and tsunamis, are used in all the above mentioned disaster communications for
example; and metaphors of freedom, liberty and tyranny are used across the
disaster typology. Metaphor is also used to communicate indirectly about
events, euphemistically and dysphemistically. Disasters have to be classified
if only to distinguish a major disaster from a minor disaster: the
classification and categorisation process requires an ontological
understanding of disaster in the first place. Ontology of disaster is an
evolving subject and needs clarifications and understanding. An ontological
understanding helps in creating terminology of a specific disaster where terms
used elsewhere are elaborated with a different nuance emphasising one aspect
of the disaster, focusing on victim needs, or dealing with the needs of the
rescuers. The harvesting and analysis of social media has led to open
questions about the rights and wrongs of such activities: The ethics of social
media usage is equally important for this workshop 

This workshop will look at the collection and analysis of social media-based
communications during major disasters. Emotive and metaphorical words are used
during disasters by the disaster victims and their rescuers. The rescuers come
from different backgrounds – medics, fire services, police, civil protection
agencies – and each uses terminology that has a unique ontological commitment.
The processing of social media based communications is fraught with the
limitations of bandwidth on the one hand and with the potential of the
technology for surveillance. It is important that language technologies be
used to ensure due anonymity of the people involved and to ensure the
existence of checks and balances.

This half-day workshop will deal with recent advances in social and legacy
media analytics, emotive and metaphorical language – both verbal and
non-verbal – and the attendant cybersecurity, legal and ethical issues in
large scale exchange and collections of data through social and legacy media
during events such as natural disasters. It is necessary to examine what
aspects of communication social and legacy media analytics aims to capture,
and establish how and in what way this may be evaluated. 

The use of social and legacy media is instrumental in disaster monitoring and
management during natural disasters. Systems largely rely on textual
information, but the advent first of the internet and then of social media has
increased the number of texts, images/videos that can be circulated quickly
and need to be analysed to provide emergency relief. 

Communication through social media is no longer one-way, i.e. from citizens to
emergency management (EM) organisations, but rather two-way, from citizens to
EM organisations and from the latter to the former. There is always a risk
that information can go viral and spread panic, while the broader legal,
ethical and human rights impact is increasingly debated with reference to
media comprising information about people, places and events in situations as
intrusive as disaster and emergency relief. This workshop will bring together
experts in, and users of, intelligent information gathering and processing.
The topics covered will include: 

- emotive and figurative language in all types of social and legacy media
communication
- automatic extraction of emotions and metaphors
- creation and evaluation of multidisciplinary ontology and terminology
- effective multicultural communications using social and formal media
- trust-building cybersecurity processes including non-disclosure of sensitive
data for purposes other than disaster mitigation and relief
- emotive language use in disaster communications: early warning systems,
disaster monitoring and mitigation, and post-disaster emergency relief 
- legal, ethical and human rights issues in large scale collections of
personal data during a disaster

Motivation and Topics of Interest: 

Social media now plays a major role in almost all communications, including
disaster communications, and allows for a multi-way communication between the
large groups of people, especially victims and their rescuers. Language is
used not only to transmit written and spoken language excerpts but also for
annotating still and video images. Disaster management systems require natural
language processing platform that have in-built privacy measures. The
multi-disciplinary nature of the rescuers requires a harmonisation of
terminology and an understanding of ontologies used by different rescue
agencies. Special language techniques are required for ensuring minimal
ambiguity in disaster communications. The key topics are: 

- emotive and metaphorical language
- ontology of evolving subject domains
- terminology of multi-disciplinary subjects 
- social media analytics
- disaster communications
- cybersecurity for social media communications
- legal and ethical issues in large scale collection of personal data during a
disaster

Abstracts need to be approximately 300 words long, excluding
bibliography and keywords. The only accepted format for electronically
submitted abstracts is Adobe PDF.

Please submit your abstract through our website:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/EMOT/

- Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 29 February 2016
- Final submission of manuscripts: 31 March 2016

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