28.3860, Calls: Cognitive Science/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3860. Wed Sep 20 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3860, Calls: Cognitive Science/USA

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:49:06
From: Niyati Chhaya [nchhaya at adobe.com]
Subject: AAAI-18 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis

 
Full Title: AAAI-18 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis 
Short Title: AffCon2018 

Date: 02-Feb-2018 - 03-Feb-2018
Location: New Orleans, USA 
Contact Person: Niyati Chhaya
Meeting Email: nchhaya at adobe.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/affcon18/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

Affect analysis refers to the set of techniques which identify and measure the
‘experience of an emotion’. This workshop focuses on analyzing affect in
content including text, audio, images, and videos. All methods and models that
measure affective responses to content are in the scope of the workshop.

Invited Speakers: 

Dipankar Chakravarti (VirginiaTech)
James Pennebaker (University of Texas Austin)
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania)


Call for Papers:

AffCon 2018: The AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis

We invite submissions on topics including text and multimedia, multilingual
analysis and affective content understanding, applications of affect–based
language processing, spoken vs. written language comparison, and analysis of
online text content: both user generated and planned marketing communication. 
Specific examples of fields of interests include (but not limited to):

- Affect modeling in content
- Computational models for consumer behavior theories
- Psycho-linguistics, including stylometrics and typography
- Affect-aware text generation 
- Spoken and formal language comparison 
- Psycho-demographic profiling
- Measurement and evaluation of affective content 
- Modeling consumer’s affect reactions
- Affect lexica for online marketing communication
- Affective commonsense reasoning 
- Affective human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction 
- Multimodal emotion recognition and sentiment analysis

We especially invite papers investigating multiple related themes, industry
papers, and descriptions of running projects and ongoing work. 

Call for Datasets and Resources:

We also invite dataset papers which describe new data resources. Dataset paper
submissions must comprise:

The data itself - organized as a single dataset or a group of datasets and,
Metadata which describes data collection and processing methods, documentation
of the structure and descriptive statistics about the content and quality of
the dataset 

Authors should describe potential uses and applications of the dataset, but
any sophisticated analysis can be a regular paper submission.  

Submissions should be made via EasyChair and must follow the formatting
guidelines for AAAI-2018 - 7 pages + 1 page references (use the AAAI Author
Kit). All submissions must be anonymous and conform to AAAI standards for
double-blind review.

Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/view/affcon18/home
Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=affcon2018

Important Dates: 

October 13, 2017:  Submission deadline. Submissions via EasyChair.
November 9, 2017:  Notification of acceptance/rejection
November 21, 2017: Camera-ready versions due
December 8, 2017: Registration deadline
February 2-3, 2018  :  Workshop at AAAI 2018




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