<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">[apologies for multiple copies]</span><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Special Section on Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Call for Papers: <a href="https://toit.acm.org/ACM-ToIT-CfP-ECSI.pdf" class="">https://toit.acm.org/ACM-ToIT-CfP-ECSI.pdf</a> </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Paper Submission Deadline: 28th February 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Author Guidelines and Templates: <a href="https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm" class="">https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm</a> </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Paper Submission Website: <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toit" class="">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toit</a> </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">The expression of social, cultural and political opinions in social media often features a strong affective component, especially when it occurs in highly-polarized contexts (e.g., in discussions on political elections, migrants, civil rights, and so on). In particular, hate speech is recognized as an extreme, yet typical, expression of opinion, and it is increasingly intertwined with the spread of defamatory, false stories. Current approaches for monitoring and circumscribing the spread of these phenomena mostly rely on simple affective models that do not account for emotions as complex cognitive, social and cultural constructs behind linguistic behavior. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">In particular, moral emotions possess a potential for advancing sentiment analysis in social media, especially since they provide insights on the motivations behind hate speech. Understanding these affective dynamics is important also for modelling human behavior in social settings that involve other people and artificial agents, as well as for designing socially-aware artificial systems.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">How can we include finer grained accounts of emotions in computational models of interpersonal and social interactions, with the goal of monitoring and dealing with conflicts in social media and agent interactions? How can we leverage the recent advances in machine learning and reasoning techniques to design more effective computational models of interpersonal and social conflict? We invite contributions that address the foregoing questions by presenting enhanced computational models and processing methods.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">INDICATIVE TOPICS OF INTEREST </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Computational models of emotions </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Moral emotions (e.g. contempt, anger and disgust) in conflictual social interactions</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Affective dynamics in human-human and human-agent conflictual interactions </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Interplay of emotions in conflictual interactions</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Dimensional and categorical emotion models in conflict representation</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Automatic processing of affect in polarized debates on social media</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Stance and hate speech detection</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Affect in online virality and fake news detection</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Opinions and arguments on highly controversial topics</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Linguistic and multimodal corpora for affect analysis in conflictual interactions</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Figurative and rhetorical devices in social contrasts</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Applications</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Conflict detection and hate speech monitoring in political debates</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Conflict-aware and conflict-oriented conversational agents</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Integration of social cues in human-agent interaction strategies </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">- Conflict-aware agents in pedagogical and coaching applications </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINES</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript and submission instructions can be found at: <a href="https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm" class="">https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm</a> </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Please select “Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions” under Manuscript Type dropdown in the Manuscript Central website.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">TIMEFRAME</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Submissions: 28 Feb 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">First decisions: 31 May 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Revisions: 15 July 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Final decisions: 31 Aug 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Final manuscripts: 30 Sep 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Publication date: 31 Jan 2020</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">SPECIAL SECTION EDITORS</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Chloé Clavel, Institut-Mines-Telecom, Telecom-ParisTech, LTCI, France</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://clavel.wp.mines-telecom.fr" class="">http://clavel.wp.mines-telecom.fr</a></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Rossana Damiano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana/" class="">http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana/</a></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://www.di.unito.it/~patti" class="">http://www.di.unito.it/~patti</a></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://users.dsic.upv.es/~prosso" class="">http://users.dsic.upv.es/~prosso</a></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Munindar P. Singh, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">CONTACT</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class="">Please send any queries about this CfP to <a href="mailto:ecsi.toit@gmail.com" class="">ecsi.toit@gmail.com</a>.</font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>