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1st Call for Papers
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Emotion Modeling and Detection in Social Media and Online
Interaction (Emotions@AISB 2018)
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The symposium is part of the AISB 2018 Convention - 4th - 6th
April 2018 - Liverpool, UK
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Overview
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The worldwide diffusion of social media has profoundly changed the
way we communicate and access information. Social media is
changing the way people interact with each other and share
information, personal messages, and opinions about situations,
objects and past experiences. Increasingly, people interact with
each other to share opinions about commercial products on
dedicated platforms, report their personal experiences on
microblogging and social networking sites, try to solve
domain-specific problems through collaborative knowledge building
and sharing in online question and answering.
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On one hand user-generated content comprise an invaluable wealth
of data, ready to be mined for training predictive models. As
such, microblogging and online interaction analysis are attracting
the interest of researchers and practitioners in NLP, machine
learning, big data analysis. Indeed, analysing opinions and
emotions conveyed by microposts can yield a competitive advantage
for businesses, can serve to gain crucial insights about political
sentiment and election results or other social issues.
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On the other hand, the pervasive use of online social media in
computer-mediated communication, is opening new challenges for
social sciences and human-computer studies. Indeed, one of the
biggest drawbacks of communication through social media is to
appropriately convey and recognize sentiment through text. While
display rules for emotions exist and are widely accepted for
traditional face-to-face interaction, people might not be prepared
for effectively dealing with the barriers of social media to
non-verbal communication. As a consequence, the design of systems
and mechanisms for fostering emotional awareness in
computer-mediated communication is becoming an important technical
and social challenge for research in computer-supported
collaborative work and social computing.
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When talking about sentiment analysis and emotional style of a
text, researchers usually refer to a wide range of affective
states including emotions, such as joy or fear, moods, opinions,
attitudes, as well as continuous dimensions for sentiment
characterization, such as valence (positive vs. negative) or
intensity (high vs. low). Specifically, the analysis of online
user-generated contents presents its own specificities and
challenges due to their characteristics, language use, and to the
huge available volume of data. Sentiment analysis on such informal
texts also poses new challenges due to the presence of slang,
misspelled words and micro-blogging features such as hashtags or
links and traditional approaches may not be successfully exploited
in this domain.
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The aims of this symposium include: presenting the state of the
art in emotion modelling and tools for online interaction;
fostering discussion around interdisciplinary research area at the
intersection between cognitive sciences, computational
linguistics, and social computing; enhancing the state of the art
in affect recognition in social media; discuss challenges and
opportunities of research and ethical concerns and applications
addressing the role of sentiment and emotions in
computer-supported cooperative work and online interaction on
social media, with a special focus on education, entertainment,
health, e-government, games, hate speech monitoring, etc.
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Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- Time evolving opinion and sentiment analysis
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- Stance detection in online debates on controversial topics
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- Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in
social media to education, entertainment, health, e-government,
games, hate speech monitoring
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- Reusable tools and frameworks
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- Ethical issues in affect and opinion detection in user-generated
contents
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- Affect sensing in online question & answering sites and
social computing
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Types of Contribution and Guidelines for Submissions
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We invite different kinds of submissions to allow researchers to
present and discuss studies at different stages of maturity, from
early stage research or study design, to full papers reporting
empirical studies, theoretical frameworks and their evaluation,
experience reports, and so on.
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Possible types of contributions include:
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- Full papers (6-8 pages) describing emotion modeling and
recognition challenges, needs, novel approaches, and frameworks.
Empirical evaluation papers are also welcome.
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- Short position papers (3-4 pages) describing a new idea or work
in progress.
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- Posters, data showcase and demo papers (1-2 pages) summarizing a
research project, tool, technique or datasets.
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Three members from the international program committee will review
each submission. Papers will be evaluated based on their
originality, relevance to the symposium, and their potential for
discussion. The papers with the best reviews will be accepted to
be presented and discussed in the workshop.
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All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the AISB
formatting guidelines. All submissions must be in English. Papers
must be submitted electronically, in PDF format at the following
website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emotionsaisb2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emotionsaisb2018</a>.
All accepted papers will distributed to the participants and
authors will be invited to present their research at the
symposium.
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Important dates
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- Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2018
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- Notification of acceptance: February 5, 2018
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- Final versions to be submitted for inclusion in proceedings:
March 5, 2018
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- Symposium date: TBC (during 4th-6th) April, 2018
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Organizers
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Francesca D’Errico, University of Roma-Tre, Italy
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Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
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Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, NL
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Nicole Novielli, University of Bari, Italy
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Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
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Program Committee*
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*still to be completed
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Alessandro Ansani, University of Rome 3, Italy
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Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
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Francesco Barbieri, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
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Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy
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Valerio Basile, Sapienza University, Italy
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Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Chloé Clavel, Telecom-ParisTech, France
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Mihaela Cocea, University of Portsmouth, UK
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Danilo Croce, Tor Vergata University, Italy
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Rossana Damiano, Università di Torino, Italy
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Celso De Melo, University of Southern California, USA
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Anna Esposito, Seconda Università di Napoli (SUN) and IIASS, Italy
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Valentina Franzoni, University of Perugia, Italy
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Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
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Delia Irazu Hernandez Farias, Universitat Politècnica de València,
Spain/University of Turin, Italy
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Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Saif Mohammad, NRC, Canada
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Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
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Marinella Paciello, Nettuno University, Italy
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Isabella Poggi, University of Rome 3, Italy
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Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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Diana Santos, University of Oslo, Norway
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Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany and Imperial College
London, UK
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Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands
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Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
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Alessandro Valitutti, University of Bari, Italy
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Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA
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