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----------------2nd CALL FOR
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ESSEM@ACII 2017 <br>
3rd International Workshop on <br>
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017):
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User Engagement and Interaction <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://di.unito.it/essem17">http://di.unito.it/essem17</a>
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Co-located with the seventh International Conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction <br>
ACII 2017 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acii2017.org/">http://acii2017.org/</a>), San
Antonio, Texas <br>
October 23, 2017 <br>
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***Submission deadline: June 15, 2017*** <br>
<br>
Keynote speaker: Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games,
Univ. of Malta <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>NEWS<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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- ESSEM 2017 is supported by: CELI Language Technology - <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.celi.it/en/">https://www.celi.it/en/</a>
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- Workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore (indexed
by Scopus) <br>
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The role of emotional intelligence is increasing at fast speed in
everyday computer-mediated interactions, thanks to the integration
of more or less explicit affective elements in social networks,
apps, virtual assistants, etc. Expressed through emojis, color,
tags or speech, affect has become part of our relationships with
computers, adding depth and involvement to them. The technical
advancement of the available expressive means, from 3D to language
technologies, is one of the key factors of this process. <br>
ESSEM 2017 addresses the expression of emotions in many-to-many
interaction and in one-to-one interaction as a tool for promoting,
analysing and measuring user engagement. In particular, we are
interested in tools and models that rely on NLP, acoustic and
video analysis; theories and methods that bridge the expression of
emotions from language to media are especially needed to overcome
the limitations of language-specific and media-specific
approaches. <br>
ESSEM 2017 focuses on interaction as a testbed for the models and
tools developed for social and expressive media. The ultimate goal
is to devise socio-emotional strategies to foster user engagement.
We encourage contributions on applications that specifically
address the role of sentiment and emotions in the interactions
that occur through social and expressive media, with a special
focus on cultural heritage, artistic expression, education and
entertainment (e.g., storytelling, artistic curation, audience
development, games and edutainment). ESSEM aims at bringing
together researchers and practitioners both from academia and
industry. It wants to take an active part in growing a new field
in terms of multidisciplinary research and to investigate open
issues by cross-validating different approaches in emotion
research. <br>
Topics include, but are not limited to: <br>
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- Affect-related phenomena in social media <br>
- Affect-related phenomena in expressive media <br>
- Affect-related phenomena in the user's engagement process <br>
- Subjectivity, sentiments and emotions in social & expressive
media <br>
- Affect and figurative language, stance or deception in social
& expressive media <br>
- Design of engaging agents <br>
- Socio-emotional strategies for user engagement <br>
- User engagement in human-human and human-agent interactions
using NLP & audio-video analysis <br>
- Grounding affect in conversational context <br>
- Affect and regulation of human-agent interaction <br>
- Affect and emotions in embodiment <br>
- Affect in interactive entertainment (drama, storytelling, games,
etc.) and art (artistic curation, audience development, etc.) <br>
- Applications of affective computing in multimodal interaction <br>
- Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in
social & expressive media <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Important
dates<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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- June 15, 2017: Paper submission deadline <br>
- July 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance <br>
- August 18, 2017: Final manuscripts due (hard deadline for all
workshops) <br>
- Workshop date: October 23, 2017) <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Paper
submission<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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Standard research papers should be a maximum of 6 pages long. We
also encourage submission of short research papers (including
opinion statements) of maximum 3 pages long. <br>
Submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACII 2017 formatting
guidelines: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acii2017.org/submission">http://acii2017.org/submission</a>
<br>
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All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via
the main conference platform: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACII2017/">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACII2017/</a>,
(track ESSEM). <br>
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Workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore. <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Organizers<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy <br>
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore <br>
Chloé Clavel, LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University,
Paris, France <br>
Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy <br>
Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy <br>
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Programme
Committee<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre <br>
Andrea Bolioli, CELI, Italy <br>
Zoraida Callejas, University of Granada, Spain <br>
Lea Canales, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain <br>
Paula Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal <br>
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK <br>
Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy <br>
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy <br>
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India <br>
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy <br>
Guillaume Dubuisson-Duplessis, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay
University, France <br>
Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy <br>
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands <br>
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain <br>
Aditya Joshi IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India <br>
Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France <br>
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy <br>
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, the Netherlands <br>
Nicole Novielli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy <br>
Magalie Ochs, LSIS, University of Aix Marseille, France <br>
Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence, Austria <br>
Rémi Ronfard, INRIA, France <br>
Saif Mohammad, National Research Council, Canada <br>
Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany, Imperial College
London, UK <br>
Candace Sidner, WPI, US <br>
Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands <br>
Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen, Italy <br>
Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France <br>
Emilio Vivancos, UPV, Spain <br>
Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy <br>
Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA <br>
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<span class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Flyer<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></span> <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.di.unito.it/%7Epatti/essem17/CFP_ESSEM-flyer2017.pdf">http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem17/CFP_ESSEM-flyer2017.pdf</a>
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If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the
submission procedure, please just contact us via email: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:essem4acii2017@gmail.com">essem4acii2017@gmail.com</a></p>
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