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4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013)

http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2013/index.htm

SCOPE

The aim of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013) is
to continue the line of the previous three editions, bringing
together researchers in Computational Linguistics working on
Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and researchers working on
interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation from text.
Additionally, this year, we would like to extend the focus to
Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena
in this context.

We encourage the submission of long and short research and demo
papers including, but not restricted to the following topics
related to subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis:

 Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media
analysis; (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation

 Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
summarization

 Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and
sentiment analysis techniques

 Data linking through social networks based on affect-related
NLP methods

 Impact of affective data from social media

 Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models

 Online reputation management

 Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
analysis

 Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis

 Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective
language

 Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task

 Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
analysis

 Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment
analysis

 Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations subjectivity and sentiment
analysis

 Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social
networks

 Classification of stance in dialogues

 Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems

SUBMISSIONS

At WASSA 2013, we will accept two types of submissions: long and
short papers.

Long papers for WASSA 2013 must not exceed eight (8) pages
without references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages
without references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using
the NAACL-HLT 2013 Style Files, available at:

http://naacl2013.naacl.org/Documents/naaclhlt2013.tgz

Reviewing for WASSA 2013 will be double blind: reviewers will not
be presented with the identity of paper authors. Authors should
avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the
text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not
previously have been formally published.

Accepted papers will be published in the NAACL-HLT WASSA
proceedings. The best papers will be chosen for a special issue
of an ISI- indexed journal. Previous special issues of WASSA
were/are in the process of being published in the Decision
Support Systems and Computer Speech and Language journals
(Elsevier).

To submit a paper, please access: TBA

Important dates:

Paper due date: March 1 (tentative), 2013

Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2013

Camera-ready deadline: April 12, 2013

Workshop to take place at NAACL-HLT 2013: June 13 or 14, 2013

Organizers

Alexandra Balahur*

 European Commission Joint Research Centre

Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

alexandra.balahur_(at)_jrc.ec.europa.eu

* With the support of the OPTIMA Action at the European
  Commission Joint Research Centre.

Andrés Montoyo

 University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante,
 Spain

 montoyo_(at)_dlsi.ua.es

Program Committee

 Khurshid Ahmad - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

 Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy

 Erik Cambria - University of Stirling, U.K.

 José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain

 Michael Gamon - Microsoft

 Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain

 Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium

 Mijail Kabadjov - Vicomtech, Spain

 Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California,
U.S.A.

 Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.

 Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada

 Karo Moilanen - Google

 Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain

 Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany

 Alena Neviarouskaia - University of Tokyo, Japan

 Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

 Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

 Paolo Rosso - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

 Josef Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy

 Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy

 Veselin Stoyanov - John Hopkins University, U.S.A.

 Maite Taboada - Simon Fraser University, Canada

 Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

 José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain

 Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania

 Alfonso Ureña - University of Jaén, Spain

 Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.

 Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

 Michael Wiegand - Saarland University, Germany

 Theresa Wilson - John Hopkins University, U.S.A.

 Taras Zagibalov - Brantwatch, U.K.
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Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu, PhD Post-doctoral Researcher European
Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for the Protection and
Security of the Citizen GlobeSec, OPTIMA Via E. Fermi 2749 T.P.
267 I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Tel: 0039 0332 78 5808

Disclaimer: "The views expressed are purely those of the writer
and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an
official position of the European Commission."

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