<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=""><div class=""><div class="">[Apologies for cross-posting] </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">----------------2nd CALL FOR PAPERS------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ESSEM2019@ACII</div><div class="">4th International Workshop on </div><div class="">Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2019): </div><div class="">Media and Arts for Inclusive, Fair and Reflective Societies</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://di.unito.it/essem19" class="">http://di.unito.it/essem19</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Co-located with the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction</div><div class="">(ACII 2019), Cambridge, UK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">September 3, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">***Submission deadline: June 15, 2019***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keynote: "Effecting Affect", Steve Benford, Mixed Reality laboratory, University of Nottingham</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> --------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The advent of social media has brought about new paradigms of interaction fostering first-person engagement and crowdsourced contents: the subjective dimension moves to the foreground, opening the way to the emergence of an affective component within a dynamic corpus of digitized contents created and enriched by the users. Expressive media, which play a key role in fields related to creativity, gather multimedia contents into online social environments, by joining the social dimension with the aims of artistic creation and self-expression. Social and expressive media generate – in a continuous loop of interaction between online environments and the community of users based in the society – new digitized contents, including spontaneous, multi-faceted and unstructured user emotional responses. This advocates new types of processing of affective and subjective information, as a basis for developing applications that specifically address the role of sentiment and emotions in social and expressive media interactions, with a focus on education, health, cultural heritage, artistic expression, and entertainment (e.g., storytelling, artistic curation, audience development, games and edutainment). </div><div class="">Supporting an inclusive, fair and reflective society is the novel focus of ESSEM with respect to the previous editions, for encouraging the discussion of implications of using social and expressive media for applications. In particular, we are interested in the reflection brought about by media and arts, as forms of emotional communication for building narratives and counternarratives too, about the changes and conflicts occurring in society: models and methods to detect, measure and study social phenomena in media though affect; artistic expression as a way to reverberate collective sentiment and promote awareness of ongoing transformations. Therefore, a major focus will be given to models and applications that can impact on monitoring, analyzing inequalities and on supporting the implementation of countermeasures to foster inclusion and fairness. Inequalities are indeed an increasingly spreading phenomena in combination with the pervasiveness of social media, which may play a (dramatical) key role with respect to exclusion of younger (cyberbullying), women (misogyny), and immigrants (hate speech), just to cite few related challenges for the ESSEM community. </div><div class="">Topics include, but are not limited to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Affect-related phenomena in social media</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Subjectivity, sentiments and emotions in social media</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and figurative language, stance or deception in social media </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Moral emotions (e.g. contempt, anger and disgust) in conflictual social interactions</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Emotions beyond stereotypes and prejudice</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and abusive language detection</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and hate speech detection </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and stance detection</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and rumor analysis</div><div class="">- Affect-related phenomena in expressive media</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affective modeling of the audience</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect in reviews and critical reception</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affective models for interactive performance and entertainment </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affective models for curation and audience development</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Emotions in storytelling and drama</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect-related phenomena in interaction</div><div class="">- Socio-emotional strategies for user engagement</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- User engagement in human-human and human-agent interactions using NLP & audio-video analysis</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Grounding affect in conversational context </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and regulation of human-agent interaction</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Affect and emotions in embodiment </div><div class="">- Applications: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Applications of affective computing in multimodal interaction</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in social & expressive media</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Applications of sentiment and emotion analysis in implementing countermeasures to foster inclusion and fairness</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Applications of sentiment and emotion analysis to fight misogyny, cyberbullying, homophobia.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Important dates*</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- June 15, 2019: Paper submission deadline</div><div class="">- June 28, 2019: Notification of acceptance</div><div class="">- July 12, 2019: Final manuscripts due (hard deadline for all workshops)</div><div class="">- Workshop date: September 3, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Paper submission* </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Standard research papers should be a maximum of 6 pages long (plus 1 page of references). We also encourage submission of short research papers (including opinion statements) of maximum 3 pages long.</div><div class="">Submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACII 2019 formatting guidelines: <a href="http://acii-conf.org/2019/submission" class="">http://acii-conf.org/2019/submission</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform: </div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acii2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acii2019</a> (track ESSEM).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Workshop Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Organizers*</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy</div><div class="">Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</div><div class="">Chloé Clavel, LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France</div><div class="">Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy</div><div class="">Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy</div><div class="">Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Programme Committee*</div><div class="">Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre</div><div class="">Zoraida Callejas, University of Granada, Spain</div><div class="">Paula Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal</div><div class="">Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK</div><div class="">Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy</div><div class="">Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy</div><div class="">Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India</div><div class="">Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy</div><div class="">Guillaume Dubuisson-Duplessis, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University, France</div><div class="">Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</div><div class="">Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands</div><div class="">Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</div><div class="">Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France</div><div class="">Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy</div><div class="">Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, the Netherlands</div><div class="">Nicole Novielli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy</div><div class="">Magalie Ochs, LSIS, University of Aix Marseille, France</div><div class="">Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria</div><div class="">Saif Mohammad, National Research Council, Canada</div><div class="">Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen, Italy</div><div class="">Nicolas Turenne, LISIS, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), INRA, CNRS, France</div><div class="">Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France</div><div class="">Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy</div><div class="">Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta</div><div class="">Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Follow us!*</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Essem2019" class="">https://twitter.com/Essem2019</a> </div><div class="">Spread the news: #essem2019</div><div class="">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Essem2019" class="">https://www.facebook.com/Essem2019</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, please just contact us via <a href="mailto:essem4acii2019@gmail.com" class="">email: essem4acii2019@gmail.com</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><br class="">*********************<br class=""><br class="">Rossana Damiano PhD<br class="">Associate Professor of Computer Science (INF/01)<br class=""><br class="">Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino - Corso Svizzera 185 10149 Torino (Italy) - + 39 011 6706816<br class="">Member of Content Centered Computing Group<br class=""><br class="">Scuola di Studi Umanistici, Corso di laurea in DAMS (School of Arts and Media) and Scuola di Scienze della Natura, Corso di L.M. in Informatica</div><div class="">Università di Torino - Via Sant'Ottavio 20 10124 Torino, Italy - +390116 6703296<br class="">CIRMA - Centro Interdipartimentale per la Multimedialità e l'Audiovisivo dell'Università di Torino<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:rossana.damiano@unito.it" class="">rossana.damiano@unito.it</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana" class="">http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana</a><br class=""><a href="http://beta.di.unito.it/index.php/english/research/groups/content-centered-computing/about" class="">http://beta.di.unito.it/index.php/english/research/groups/content-centered-computing/about</a><br class=""><br class="">"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original" (Sir Ken Robinson)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>