PATHOS 2012 - Workshop on Practice and Theory of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

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Category PATHOS 2012

Deadline: June 15, 2012 | Date: September 21, 2012

Venue/Country: Vienna, Austria

Updated: 2012-04-29 22:47:09 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

workshop held in conjunction with KONVENS-2012

September 21, 2012, Vienna, Austria

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012

Website: http://pathos.sentimental.li/

*Scope of the Workshop*

The goal of PATHOS is to attract researchers and developers in

the area of sentiment analysis and opinion mining. The workshop

focuses on

(i) methods and resources for multi-lingual sentiment

analysis,

(ii) dependencies of genre and domain in sentiment

analysis and its subtasks,

(iii) sentiment analysis with distinction of emotional

categories, i.e. emotion analysis, and

(iv) opinion holder and opinion target extraction.

While there is an abundance of methods and resources available

for English, comparatively little research focuses on other

languages or multi-lingual sentiment analysis.

In addition to language differences, deviations across genres

and domains require special treatment, but are so far only

seldom taken into account.

Emotion analysis goes beyond traditional sentiment analysis,

giving insight into the different emotional categories of an

opinionated statement. Thus it is not restricted to mere

polarity identification but detects particular feelings, such

as "fear" , or "anger" , "hope" and "joy" .

Opinion holder and target extraction is the domain in sentiment

analysis with significant economic potential. It allows

stakeholders to nail down the exact source and target of

criticism or praise. Exploiting this knowledge helps improving

products and services and can be considered a tool for quality

assurance.

PATHOS will serve as a platform for these particular sub-areas

of sentiment analysis.

The workshop will be organized by the recently founded

Interest Group on German Sentiment Analysis:

http://synergy.sentimental.li

*Topics of Interest*

We invite contributions on, but not necessarily limited to:

- Genre- and domain-specific sentiment analysis

- Cross-genre and cross-domain sentiment analysis

- Semi-supervised/weakly supervised learning for sentiment analysis

- Contrast of machine learning vs. linguistic approaches vs. hybrid

methods

- Sentiment analysis on twitter and social media in general

- Fine-to-coarse sentiment analysis

- Emotion detection and classification

- Representation of and calculus on emotions

- Multi-lingual sentiment analysis

- Lexical resources for opinion mining and sentiment analysis

- Gold standards and methods for evaluation

- Real-world applications and large-scale sentiment analysis

- Trends and perspectives in the field

*Important Dates*

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2012

Acceptance notification: July 20, 2012

Camera-ready version due: August 27, 2012

Workshop: September 21, 2012

*Submission Guidelines*

We will accept two types of submissions: full papers and

short papers. The reviewing will be double blind.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.

All submissions should describe original work that has

not been previously published.

We also accept demos, position papers (opinion pieces),

and submissions discussing interesting negative results,

both as full and short papers.

The submission guidelines of this workshop

(w.r.t. the format of these types of papers) will follow

the guidelines of the KONVENS 2012 main conference:

http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/cfp.shtml

To submit a paper, use the interface at:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=pathos2012

*Organizing committee*

Stefan Gindl (MODUL University Vienna, Austria)

Robert Remus (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Michael Wiegand (Saarland University, Germany)

*Program committee*

Alexandra Balahur (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy)

Simon Clematide (University of Zuerich, Switzerland)

Manfred Klenner (University of Zuerich, Switzerland)

Johann Mitloehner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

Stefanos Petrakis (University of Zuerich, Switzerland)

Josef Ruppenhofer (Hildesheim University, Germany)

Swapna Somasundaran (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)

Manfred Stede (Potsdam University, Germany)

Ralf Steinberger (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy)

Veselin Stoyanov (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Cigdem Toprak (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)

Ulli Waltinger (Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany)

Albert Weichselbraun (University of Applied Sciences Chur, Switzerland)