NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on
Computational Approaches
to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text
June 5, Los Angeles, CA
Hosted in conjunction with the Human Language Technologies: the 11th Annual
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics that will take place June 1-6, 2010, in Los Angeles, CA
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Workshop
Program.
Accepted papers.
The automatic detection of emotions in texts and the generation of texts that
express emotions is important for applications such as natural language
interfaces, e-learning environments, and educational or entertainment games.
These aspects are also important in opinion mining and sentiment analysis, and
in the larger area of affective computing.
This workshop will provide a
forum for discussion between leading names and researchers involved in
processing emotions in the context of natural language understanding, natural
language generation, or applications in which computational approaches to the
processing of emotions are useful. Besides methodologies and techniques for
emotion analysis and generation, we also encourage the submission of papers
that experiment with and describe applicative contexts
in which analysis and detection of affective aspects are useful and beneficial.
Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- emotion analysis in sentences and
documents;
- classification of texts by
emotion and mood;
- the generation of sentences that
express emotions;
- emotion processing across
different languages;
- the analysis of sentiment and
opinion that contains emotional aspects;
- argumentation that includes
emotions and opinions;
- emotion analysis in automatic
speech transcripts;
- applications in which affective
aspects are beneficial;
- other aspects of the
computational treatment of emotion and affect.
IMPORTANT DATES
Mar 10, 2010 (extended) Final deadline for workshop papers
Apr 5, 2010 Notification of acceptance
Apr 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
Jun 5, 2010 Workshop date
Invited speaker:
Oren Glickman, MoodBase.com
MoodBase: emotion analysis as a means of categorizing content
Submission instructions:
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the
topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be formatted using the
NAACL 2010 stylefiles, with blind review and not
exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page for references. The stylefiles
are available at http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/authors.html
The PDF files will be submitted electronically. The link is
https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/emotion/.
Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the programme
committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dual
submissions to the main NAACL 2010 conference and this workshop are allowed; if
you submit to the main session, indicate this when you submit to the
workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should
withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session.
Organizing committee
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy)
Programme Committee
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm(Cornell University, USA)
Carmen Banea (University of North Texas, USA)
Sabine Bergler (Concordia University, Canada)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Andrea Esuli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerca, Italy)
Viola Ganter (EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)
Degen Huang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Mitsuru Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Shahzad Khan (Whyz Technologies Inc., Ottawa, Canada)
Zornitsa Kozareva (University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada)
Alena Neviarouskaya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Alexander Osherenko (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Fuji Ren (University of Tokushima, Japan)
Victoria Rubin (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Theresa Wilson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Diana Inkpen
University of Ottawa
School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE)
800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 6711, Fax: (613) 562-5664
Office: SITE, Room 5015
Email: diana@site.uottawa.ca