Deadline:
01 November 2010
This special issue focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel and existing mono- and multimodal affective resources. Alternatively, ways to better exploit existing corpora by improved standardization and combination can be addressed. Necessary steps in this direction comprise mapping schemes to overcome the peculiarities of the field – such as categorical, complex or dimensional, and unstable annotation, and measurements to automatically assess similarity, type, and quality of resources. Also needed are new ways to establish semi-supervised processing of large resources by media tagging, or ways to better bundle efforts of the community, e.g. by shared and distributed collection and annotation of data. Finally, for better exchange and comparability of reported results, partitioning and evaluation strategies will benefit from further discussion. The issues mentioned may be exemplified by novel naturalistic resources or by exploiting existing ones.