BIOMSA 2012 - Special Session on Brain Inspired Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

BIOMSA
Brain Inspired Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
IEEE ICCI*CC’12 Special Session #4
http://sentic.net/2012/01/29/biomsa
Abstract
Due to many challenging research problems and a wide variety of practical applications, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become very active research areas in the last decade.
Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited as natural
language understanding techniques are still pretty weak. Most of current research in sentiment analysis, in fact, merely relies on machine learning algorithms. Such algorithms, despite
most of them being very effective, produce no human understandable results such that we
know little about how and why output values are obtained. All such approaches, moreover,
rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural
language. The main aim of this IEEE ICCI*CC’12 special session is to examine the new frontiers of opinion mining and sentiment analysis by proposing brain inspired techniques that
could allow to better extract and aggregate the cognitive and affective information associated
with natural language text.
Topics of Interest
The special session will provide an international forum for both researchers and entrepreneurs
working in the ?eld of opinion mining to share information on their latest investigations in
social information retrieval and their applications in academic research areas and industrial
sectors. The broader context of the special session comprehends Web Mining, AI, Semantic
Web, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. In addition to paper presentations, organizers plan to solicit an invited talk or a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary
challenges of opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:
? Brain inspired sentiment identi?cation & classi?cation
? Brain inspired sentiment summarization & visualization
? Brain inspired opinion search & retrieval
? Brain inspired topic detection & trend discovery
? Brain inspired sentiment corpora & annotation
? Brain inspired applications to new social media
? Brain inspired affective knowledge acquisition & representation
? Brain inspired sentiment tracking
? Brain inspired affect structures & models
? Brain inspired comparative opinion analysis? Brain inspired cross-lingual sentiment analysis
? Brain inspired sentiment elicitation from events
? Brain inspired business intelligence applications
Organizers
? Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
? Wenyin Liu, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
? Amitava Das, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
? Feifei Xu, Shanghai University of Electric Power (China)
? Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University (India)
Aims and Outcomes
Although sentiment analysis research has started long back and it is currently one of the
hottest research topics, the question “What is sentiment/opinion/emotion?” still remains
unanswered. It is very hard to de?ne sentiment and to identify its regulating or controlling
factors. Till date, moreover, no concise set of psychological forces has been yet de?ned that
really affects how writers’ sentiment, i.e., broadly human sentiment, is expressed, perceived,
recognized, processed, and interpreted.
How the mind works is still a mystery. We understand the hardware, but we don’t have a clue about
the operating system. James Watson
In fact, it is very hard to determine what knowledge is to be acquired, what is to be ignored,
and why. There is a perpetual debate about the better way to acquire knowledge either by
following the functional path of biological human intelligence or by generating new methodologies for completely heterogeneous mechatronics machines. Therefore, the aim of this IEEE
ICCI*CC’12 special session is to patronize more research attempts and arguments in the ?elds
of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to move towards more biologically-inspired and
psychologically-motivated approaches to natural language processing.
Timeframe
? March 19th, 2012: Submission deadline
? April 30th, 2012: Noti?cation of acceptance
? May 31st, 2012: Final manuscripts due
? August 22th, 2012: Special session date
Submission and Proceedings
The session number (SS4) must be shown in front of the title of each submission. Papers have
to be submitted to both EasyChair and BIOMSA organizers, in order to track their reviews.
Accepted papers will be published in IEEE ICCI*CC proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the session will be published in special issues of the International
Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI) and the International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI).