Proceedings and Book of Abstracts
Workshop Programme
9:00 – 9.10 | Introduction by Workshop Chair |
9.10 – 10:30 | Social Media |
Chair: J. Fernando Sánchez | |
Cristina Bosco et al. | Tweeting in the Debate about Catalan Elections |
Ian D. Wood and Sebastian Ruder | Emoji as Emotion Tags for Tweets |
Antoni Sobkowicz and Wojciech Stokowiec | Steam Review Dataset - new, large scale sentiment dataset |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 – 13:00 | Corpora and Data Collection |
Chair: Viviana Patti | |
Ebuka Ibeke et al. | A Curated Corpus for Sentiment-Topic Analysis |
Jasy Liew Suet Yan and Howard R. Turtle | EmoCues-28: Extracting Words from Emotion Cues for a Fine-grained Emotion Lexicon |
Lea Canales et al. | A Bootstrapping Technique to Annotate Emotional Corpora Automatically |
Francis Bond et al. | A Multilingual Sentiment Corpus for Chinese, English and Japanese |
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 – 15:00 | Personality and User Modelling |
Chair: Björn Schuller | |
Shivani Poddar et al. | PACMAN: Psycho and Computational Framework of an Individual (Man) |
Veronika Vincze1, Klára Hegedűs, Gábor Berend and Richárd Farkas | Telltale Trips: Personality Traits in Travel Blogs |
15:00 – 16:00 | Linked Data and Semantics |
Chair: Ian D. Wood | |
Minsu Ko | Semantic Classification and Weight Matrices Derived from the Creation of Emotional Word Dictionary for Semantic Computing |
J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada et al. | Towards a Common Linked Data Model for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis |
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 – 18:00 | Beyond Text Analysis |
Chair: J. Fernando Sánchez | |
Bin Dong, Zixing Zhang and Björn Schuller | Empirical Mode Decomposition: A Data-Enrichment Perspective on Speech Emotion Recognition |
Rebekah Wegener, Christian Kohlschein, Sabina Jeschke and Björn Schuller | Automatic Detection of Textual Triggers of Reader Emotion in Short Stories |
Andrew Moore, Paul Rayson and Steven Young | Domain Adaptation using Stock Market Prices to Refine Sentiment Dictionaries |
Scope
The Emotion and Sentiment Analysis workshop is the sixth edition of the highly successful series of Corpora for Research on Emotion. As its predecessors, the aim of this workshop is to connect the related fields around sentiment, emotion and social signals, exploring the state of the art in applications and resources. All this, with a special interest on multidisciplinarity, multilingualism and multimodality.
This year's edition will again also put an emphasis on common models and formats, as a standardization process would foster the creation of interoperable resources. In particular, researchers are encouraged to share their experience with Linked Data representation of emotions and sentiment and present any initiatives to go beyond the state of the art. Beyond data modelling, the workshop will deal with harnessing Linked Open Data in every application: from data collection and sharing to data analysis.
Approaches on semi-automated and collaborative labeling of large data archives will also be of interest, such as by efficient combinations of active learning and crowdsourcing. In particular also for combined annotations of emotion, sentiment, and social signals. Multi- and cross-corpus studies (transfer learning, standardisation, corpus quality assessment, etc.) are further highly relevant, given their importance in order to test the generalisation power of models.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Multimodality and the influence of modality in both expression and analysis
- Multilingual applications and resources
- The influence of language and culture in the interpretation of emotion
- The perception and annotation mixtures of affective states
- The role of context in emotion and sentiment analysis
- The study of emotions and demographics (emotions and age, gender, personality)
- Big data for training and analysis
- Models for annotation and representation
- Emotions in Social Media
- Real-life applications of language and multimodal resources
- Novel corpora of affective speech in audio and multimodal data
- Novel corpora of written language and multimodal data for sentiment and trait analysis
- Resources for emotional and personality profiles
- Resources and analysis of social emotions (embarrassment, guilt, shame, pride, etc.), figurative languages (irony, metaphor, parody, sarcasm, satire, etc.) and social signals (consents, laughs, sighs, hesitations, etc.)
- Resources for underrepresented languages and cultures
- Resources for emotional and personality profiles
- Multi- and cross-corpus studies (transfer learning, standardisation, corpus quality assessment, etc.)
- New methods for community or distributed annotation (crowd-sourcing, mixed crowd/expert, etc.)
Important Dates
- Submission of abstracts: February 15, 2016 February 19, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2016
- Camera-ready version: March 25, 2016
- Workshop: May 23, 2016
Submission
Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about 1500 – 2000 words. All submissions must follow the guidelines at LREC 2016. Camera-ready versions will be limited to:
- Regular papers: 8 pages
- Short papers: 4 pages
- Demo papers: 2-4 pages
All submissions will be done via the START page. When submitting a paper, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research.
Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)
Organising Committee
- J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada - UPM, Spain - jfernando@dit.upm.es
- Carlos A. Iglesias - UPM, Spain
- Björn Schuller - Imperial College London, UK
- Gabriela Vulcu - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG, Ireland
- Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG, Ireland
- Laurence Devillers - LIMSI, France
Program Committee
- Elisabeth André - U. Augsburg, Germany
- Rodrigo Agerri - EHU, Spain
- Noam Amir - Tel-Aviv U., Isreal
- Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu - ISPRA, Italy
- Cristina Bosco - U. Torino, Italy
- Felix Burkhardt - Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Antonio Camurri - U. Genova, Italy
- Montse Cuadros - VicomTech, Spain
- Julien Epps - NICTA, Australia
- Francesca Frontini - CNR, Italy
- Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
- Sapna Negi - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG, Ireland
- Viviana Patti - U. Torino, Italy
- Albert Salah - Boğaziçi University, Turkey
- Jianhua Tao - CAS, P.R. China
- Michel Valstar - U. Nottingham, UK
- Benjamin Weiss - Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- Ian Wood - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG, Ireland