[agents] CFP: SentISData at IEEE-DSAA 15: Special session on Emotion and Sentiment in Intelligent Systems and Big Social Data Analysis

[Viviana Patti]

[Apology for cross-postings]

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SentISData
Special session on Emotion and Sentiment in Intelligent Systems and Big 
Social Data Analysis

IEEE 2015 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
(IEEE DSAA'2015)
19-21 October, 2015, Paris, France
Website: http://dsaa2015.lip6.fr/
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Session Overview
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Aims and Scope:

The rise of social media and the availability of big social data 
represent a challenge and a push forward for research on emotion and 
sentiment, which can meaningfully contribute to the investigation on 
affective cognitive models and their integration into intelligent 
systems. Social media are typical contexts for the emergence of 
subjective and expressive dimensions, but both the huge amount of data 
available and the relative dilution, within these data, of the meaning 
to be extracted, have to be carefully taken into account. Moreover, the 
role of the affective dimension is crucial also for systems interacting 
with humans in communicating data, where affect can contribute to convey 
the complex meanings underlying data.
This calls for delving into the evolution of approaches, techniques and 
tools for modeling and analyzing emotion and sentiment, with the aim of 
dealing with the affective information conveyed by media that reflect 
spontaneous, unstructured user responses, and applying big social data 
analysis within a dynamic corpus of contents, created and enriched by 
users according to new paradigms of interactions fostering emotional 
engagement.
Big social data analysis is interdisciplinary and combines areas such as 
natural language processing, social network analysis, multimedia 
management, social media analytics, trend discovery, information 
retrieval, computational linguistics. The goal of this special session 
is to collect contributions on the development and application of 
techniques for analysing big social data, with a special focus on 
sentiment analysis and opinion mining, and on research about paradigms 
for the integration of emotional states in intelligent systems, to 
improve systems both for what concerns emotion-awareness and affective 
human-computer interaction.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Emotion and sentiment in social media and big data

- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social media

- Sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social media

- Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery

- Emotion, sentiment and social network analysis

- Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis

- Emotions, sentiment and places

- Using big social data to measure happiness

- Emotion models and ontologies of emotions

- Affect in natural language

- Emotion-aware intelligent systems

- Emotions in human-agent interaction and communication

- Emotions, affect and data visualisation

- Applications of sentiment and big data analysis on social sciences, 
e-participation, political forecasting, commerce, tourism, education, 
healthcare, cultural heritage, etc.


Submission Website and Publication
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Submissions to a special session should be submitted by choosing the 
respective special session when you Submit a Paper to IEEE DSAA'2015.
Please log in https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedsaa2015 to 
submit your papers to the main track and/or special sessions by 
selecting the relevant tracks after you logging in the Easychair 
submission system.
Accepted special session submissions will be included into the Special 
Session part of the main conference proceedings to be published by IEEE 
and included into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, EX-indexed.


Important Dates
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Paper Submission deadline:  18 May, 2015
Notification of acceptance: 6 July, 2015
Final Camera-ready papers due:  28 August, 2015

Session Organizers
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Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Contact
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If you have any questions regarding the special session please send us 
an e-mail to: patti at di.unito.it