[agents] CFP: SentISData at IEEE-DSAA 16: Special session on Emotion and Sentiment in Intelligent Systems and Big Social Data Analysis

[Viviana Patti]

[Apology for cross-postings]

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

IEEE DSAA'2016: 2016 International Conference on
Data Science and Advanced Analytics

Montreal, Canada
October 17-19, 2016

https://www.ualberta.ca/~dsaa16/
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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 analyzing 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 texts
- Sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social media
- Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery
- Irony and sarcasm detection
- Multimodal emotion and sentiment detection in social media
- Emotion, sentiment and social network analysis
- Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis
- Emotions, sentiment, geographic locations and places
- Using big social data to measure emotional states (e.g. happiness, 
anger, disappointment)
- Using sentiment and affect for social media predictive analysis 
including genre identification, political preference, etc.
- Emotion models and ontologies of emotions
- Affect in natural language
- Emotion-aware intelligent systems
- Emotions in human-agent interaction and communication
- Visualization and summarization of emotions and affect
- Applications of sentiment and big data analysis on social sciences, 
e-participation, political forecasting, commerce, tourism, education, 
healthcare, cultural heritage, etc.

Submission Website
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsaa2016
(special session)

Conference Paper Formatting and Publication
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Conference paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of ten (10) 
pages, in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Proceedings Author 
Guidelines: 
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). 
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE 
Xplore Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for 
EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE. Top quality papers accepted and 
presented at the conference will be selected for extension and 
publication in the special issues of some international journals, 
including International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 
(https://www.ualberta.ca/~dsaa16/cfpapers.html)


Important Dates
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Paper Submission deadline: Friday 20 May, 2016, 11:59 PM PDT
Notification of acceptance: 15 July, 2016
Final Camera-ready papers due: 19 August, 2016


Special Session Chairs
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Farah Benamara Zitoune, IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France

Cristina Bosco, Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy

Elisabetta Fersini, DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Viviana Patti, Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy

Emilio Vivancos, DSIC, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain


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