WASSA 2015 - 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

The aim of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015) is to continue the line of the previous 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, starting with WASSA 2013, we extended the focus to Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena in this context. In this new proposed edition, we would like to encourage the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but not restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment analysis:
Download the pdf http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2015/cfp/CfP_v1.pdf.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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:
Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis; (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
The use of semantic resources and methods (knowledge bases, semantic representations, inference mechanisms) for subjectivity, sentiment and emotion analysis;
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
HACKATHON
In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to introduce some technology or software toolkit to the attendees, and let then "play" and develop ideas around it.
We plan to organize a one day session, in the first half presenting the participating systems and their use and creating teams for "application" development and leaving the second half of the day for working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and reward the winner with a gadget.