EMNLP 2017 WASSA 2017
8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis
To be held in conjuntion with the EMNLP 2017 Conference
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European Commission Joint Research Centre



NEWS
29.08.2017The WASSA 2017 workshop will take place in the room Hovedbanen. For more information, please visit the EMNLP 2017 venue information page here.
16.08.2017The WASSA 2017 program is available here
16.08.2017The WASSA 2017 invited speakers are Dr. Iryna Gurevych, Dr. Viktor Pekar and Aditya Joshi. For more info, see the invited speakers page.
06.06.2017The WASSA 2017 deadline has been extended to Sunday, June 18th. Submit your contribution here
25.04.2017The WASSA 2017 submission site now open. Submit your contribution here
10.02.2017WASSA 2017 anti-harrassment policy following the ACL anti-harassment policy. https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy
10.02.2017The WASSA 2017 website now launched.
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions, sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide. SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g. marketing, eGovernance, business intelligence, social analysis) and also to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) - information extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few. The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology, Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology. In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years, dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex, interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its challenges include the need to address the issue from different perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application for which the analysis is done.
CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2016) 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 version of the CFP. WASSA 2017 anti-harrassment policy following the ACL anti-harassment policy. https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy

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
TASKS

In 2017, we will also include a task on emotion as part of the workshop. New labeled training and test data will be provided and participants can test their automatic systems on this common dataset. Papers describing the systems will be presented at the WASSA workshop, either as oral presentations (top scoring systems) or as posters.

Task 1: Emotion Intensity Task

Organizers: Saif M. Mohammad, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, and Alexandra Balahur

Given a tweet and an emotion X, determine the intensity or degree of emotion X felt by the speaker -- a real-valued score between 0 and 1. The maximum possible score 1 stands for feeling the maximum amount of emotion X (or having a mental state maximally inclined towards feeling emotion X). The minimum possible score 0 stands for feeling the least amount of emotion X (or having a mental state maximally away from feeling emotion X). The tweet along with the emotion X will be referred to as an instance. Note that the absolute scores have no inherent meaning -- they are used only as a means to convey that the instances with higher scores correspond to a greater degree of emotion X than instances with lower scores. Training and test datasets are provided for four emotions: joy, sadness, fear, and anger. For example, the anger training dataset has tweets along with a real-valued score between 0 and 1 indicating the degree of anger felt by the speaker. More details are on the task webpage.

 
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