[agents] Final CfP ESSEM 2013: special issue and extended deadline
Viviana Patti
patti at di.unito.it
Thu Sep 12 03:10:07 EDT 2013
[Apologies for cross-posting]
----------------FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS-----------
ESSEM 2013
International Workshop on
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media:
approaches and perspectives from AI
Turin, Italy, December 3rd, 2013
Submission deadline: September 25th, 2013 (EXTENDED!!!)
Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/essem
Workshop of AI*IA 2013, 25th Year Anniversary, Turin, Italy
XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
NEWS
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-Deadline extended to *** September 25th, 2013 ***.
-We are happy to announce that the Information Processing & Management
journal (Elsevier) will publish a special issue containing extended
versions of the best papers at ESSEM 2013, plus additional papers
selected through an open CFP.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management/
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RATIONALE
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Social and expressive media can represent a challenge and a push forward
for research on emotion and sentiment in AI.
Although sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending
topics since a while, not enough emphasis has been placed so far on
social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key role
in applicative fields related to creativity, its expressions and
outcomes, such as figurative arts, music or drama. In such fields, the
advent of digital social media has brought about new paradigms of
interactions that foster first-person engagement and crowdsourcing
content creation: the subjective and expressive dimensions move to the
foreground, opening the way to the emergence of an affective component
within a dynamic corpus of contents - created or enriched by users. This
calls for delving into the evolution of approaches, techniques and tools
for modeling and analyzing emotion and sentiment.
The workshop aims at bridging between the communities of AI researchers
working in the field of affective computing under different
perspectives. Such perspectives include, on the one hand, research on
models and techniques for sentiment analysis and opinion mining on
linguistic corpora and unstructured data from social web; on the other
hand, research on formal and cognitive models in intelligent agents and
multi-agent systems. The latter, in particular, is concerned with the
integration of emotional states into agents and with the role of
emotions in agent communication, with the possible goal of defining
sophisticated emotion-aware coordination and negotiation strategies.
Cross-fertilization between different but related communities will be
precious in order to face the challenges raised by the social and
expressive media, such as:
- extracting concept-level sentiment conveyed by social media texts by
relying on structured knowledge of affective information, i.e. affective
categorization models expressed by ontologies, better still if
psychologically motivated and encoded in the semantic web standards;
- cross-validation between sentiment-based approaches and cognitive models;
- investigating advanced social aspects of emotions, i.e. regulative or
ethic issues related to emotions in virtual agents;
- fostering the interoperability and integration of tools by encouraging
compliance with emerging standards (e.g. Emotion Markup Language).
TOPICS
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ESSEM aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both from
academy and industry. The workshop wants to take an active part in
growing a new field in terms of multi-disciplinary research and
identifying and investigating open issues by cross-validating different
approaches in emotion research from the AI community. Therefore, we
encourage the submission of research papers from different areas such as
natural language processing, semantic web, intelligent agents and
multi-agent systems, affective computing, and others.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- social media corpora and annotations for subjectivity, emotion & sentiment
- subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social & expressive media
- concept-level sentiment analysis
- biologically inspired opinion mining
- sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social & expressive
media
- emotion modeling and ontologies of emotions
- knowledge representation and reasoning about emotions
- semantic web technologies for subjectivity & sentiment analysis
- emotions in virtual agents and multi-agent systems
- social simulation and emotions in cooperative MAS environments
- emotions in face to face interactions
- emotions in multimedia and multimodal systems
- emotions in sounds and music computing
- emotions in interactive entertainment (drama, games, etc.)
- emotions in storytelling
- creative language (humor, irony, etc.) in social & expressive media
- aesthetic perception monitoring in museums (e.g. via wearable sensors)
- emotions in cultural heritage access
- sentiment summarization & visualization
- applications of sentiment analysis on social & expressive media
SPECIAL FOCUS on EMOTIONS in the PLANET ART:
CALL FOR PAPERS & ARTWORKS
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We propose a special focus for ESSEM 2013: emotions and sentiment in
fields related to creativity, its expressions and its outcomes, i.e.
figurative arts, music, drama, entertainment, etc.
Artistic creation and performance seems to be a very interesting testbed
for cross-validating and possibly integrating approaches, models and
tools for automatically analyzing and generating emotion and sentiment.
In fact, in such context the social and subjective dimension naturally
emerges, think for instance to feedback by visitors of a real or virtual
art exhibition, or to the audience-oeuvre (or audience-performance)
interaction. Moreover, expressive features of the artistic performance
can provide an interesting case study for evaluating systems for
automatic generation of emotional behaviors.
Our final goal is to encourage the research community to develop models
and tools to bring innovation in several application fields
(edutainment, healthcare, cultural heritage etc.), in order to give, in
the next future, an essential contribution to the development of an
inclusive and innovative society.
On this line, we encourage the submission of research papers
investigating aspects of emotion and sentiment in fields related to
creativity and expressive media.
Moreover, we welcome the submission of artworks, where affective
computing is recognized to play a key role in the generation of artistic
contents or in the implementation of new forms of interaction to engage
the user/audience.
A specific call for artworks and guidelines about the submission of
artworks can be found here:
http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem13/call4artworks-essem13.pdf.
TIMEFRAME
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- September 25th, 2013: Paper submission deadline (extended)
- October 21st, 2013: Notification of acceptance
- October, 31st, 2013: Early registration
- November 4th, 2013: Final manuscripts due
- December 3rd, 2013: Workshop date
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions:
- Full research papers (up to 8-12 pages)
- Short research papers (up to 4-6 pages)
- Demo (system demonstrations) papers (up to 4 pages)
- Position statements (up to 2-4 pages)
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS Authors:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essem2013
PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUE
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Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published
on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), with ISSN.
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the
workshop to present the paper and should then register to the conference
with a workshop fee.
The Information Processing & Management journal (Elsevier) will publish
a special issue containing extended versions of the best papers at ESSEM
2013, plus additional papers selected through an open CFP.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management/
KEYNOTE: Creative Natural Language Processing
by Carlo Strapparava, FBK-irst, Italy
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Dealing with creative language and in particular with affective,
persuasive and even humorous language has often been considered outside
the scope of computational linguistics. Nonetheless it is possible to
exploit current NLP techniques starting some explorations about it.
We briefly review some computational experiences about these typical
creative genres. Then we will talk about the exploitation of some
extra-linguistic features: for example music and lyrics in emotion
detection, and an audience-reaction tagged corpus of political speeches
for the analysis of persuasive language.
As further examples of practical applications, we will present a system
for automatized memory techniques for vocabulary acquisition in a second
language, and an application for automatizing creative naming (branding).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Carlo Strapparava is a senior researcher at FBK-irst (Fondazione Bruno
Kessler - Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica) in the
Human Language Technologies Unit. His research activity covers
artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent
interfaces, human-computer interaction, cognitive science,
knowledge-based systems, user models, adaptive hypermedia, lexical
knowledge bases, word-sense disambiguation, affective computing and
computational humour. He is the author of over 150 papers, published in
scientific journals, book chapters and in conference proceedings. He
also played a key role in the definition and the development of many
projects funded by European research programmes. He regularly serves in
the program committees of the major NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, etc.).
He was executive board member of SIGLEX, a Special Interest Group on the
Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2007-2010),
Senseval (Evaluation Exercises for the Semantic Analysis of Text)
organisation committee (2005-2010). On June 2011, he was awarded with a
Google Research Award on Natural Language Processing, specifically on
the computational treatment of creative language.
PROGRAM CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS
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Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy
Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
Cristina Battaglino, University of Torino, Italy
Andrea Bolioli, CELI, Italy
Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy
Paula Carvalho, INESC-ID & ISLA Campus Lisboa, Portugal
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK
Mário J. Gaspar da Silva, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Andrea Esuli, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Virginia Francisco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Marco Grassi, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Nicola Henze, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
Anup Kalia, North Carolina State University, Releigh, USA
Iolanda Leite, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
Alessandro Moschitti,University of Trento, Italy
Roberto Paredes, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - LTCI, France
Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria
Antonio Pizzo, University of Torino, Italy
Daniele Radicioni, University of Torino, Italy
Francisco Rangel, Autoritas Consulting, Spain
Antonio Reyes, Lab. Tecnologias Linguisticas, ISIT, Mexico
Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Michael Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Andrea Valle, University of Torino, Italy
Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Cristina Battaglino, University of Torino, Italy
email: battagli at di.unito.it
SPONSORS
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The ESSEM 2013 workshop is under the auspices of:
- Working Group on Natural Language Processing of the AI*IA:
https://sites.google.com/a/aixia.it/nlp/
- CELI: http://www.celi.it/en/
- Associazione Informatica Musicale Italiana (AIMI):
http://www.aimi-musica.org/
- CIRMA: http://www.cirma.unito.it/eng/
- WIQ-EI - Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative
CONTACT
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If you have any questions regarding the workshop please send us an
e-mail to: essem2013 at easychair.org
Workshop web site: http://di.unito.it/essem
The CFP has been also published on the sentic.net web site:
http://sentic.net/essem/
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