Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008)

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CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on Sentiment Analysis:
Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008)
27 May, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html
Submission deadline: 20 February 2008
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*Workshop Topics*
Sentiment analysis systems seek to extract emotions and feelings 
expressed about people, organisations, nation states, goods and 
services, in free natural language texts. This interdisciplinary 
workshop will address three related topics in this area: (a) how 
metaphor and sentiment interact in everyday communication; (b) 
language/conceptual resources properties to support sentiment analysis 
(c) evaluation of sentiment analysis programs and evaluation 
methodologies. There will be one keynote lecture on each of the three 
topics followed by the presentation of papers related to each of the 
three topics. *Workshop Aims* This workshop will deal with the recent 
advances in the processing of “sentiment” in arbitrary collections of 
text. Sentiment can be expressed about works of art and literature, 
about the state of financial markets, about liking and disliking 
individuals, organisations, ideologies, and consumer goods. It is 
necessary to examine what aspects of emotional experience sentiment 
analysis aims to capture, how and in what way this may be evaluated. 
This workshop focuses on three strands of research which will serve to 
enhance the development of automated sentiment analysis systems of free 
text for real world applications. Firstly, in psychology and 
computational linguistics, the notions of emotion and metaphor interact 
in a number of complex ways. It has been argued that conceptual 
metaphors underlie human understanding and processing of emotion. In 
addition, it can be argued that the expression of sentiment and its 
interpretation can rely critically on how a speaker or writer uses 
metaphor. Therefore, an understanding of how emotion is expressed and 
perceived in language is not complete without addressing the role of 
figurative language and metaphor as basic scaffolding or tool for 
modulating affective text content. Secondly, to date, sentiment analysis 
typically deals with a specific domain of ‘ideal objects’. In order to 
build a sentiment analysis system, one has to understand ‘what there is’ 
in a given domain, i.e. the ontology of the domain. In this context, is 
it possible to conceive of generic sentiment analysis? Practitioners in 
this area need to examine the requirements and challenges of an approach 
that could cross boundaries of domain or time or even language where 
different communities of use, languages or cultures may express or even 
experience sentiments in different ways. Finally, work in sentiment 
analysis may be regarded as work in intelligent information retrieval 
and “success” is evaluated in terms of accuracy in identifying the 
affective content of information segments. Yet sentiment analysis has 
the potential to have a powerful impact in other domains that require 
input about emotional context. Researchers in Human-Computer 
Interaction, Affective Computing, Lexicography and Terminography, may 
become end-users of work in sentiment analysis and sentiment analysis 
folks may have much to learn from how a machine artificially “endowed” 
with emotions/sentiments behaves. It may become feasible to evaluate 
sentiment analysis systems in terms of the performance of such 
applications. An examination of alternative end-user systems and 
evaluation mechanisms can only serve to enrich the field of sentiment 
analysis and present new challenges for researchers to address. 

*Submissions*
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work 
in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should should not exceed 
8 pages and should be typeset using a font size of 11 points. (Style 
files will be made available by LREC for the camera-ready versions of 
accepted papers.) The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the 
papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Each 
submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program 
committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop 
proceedings. Springer has expressed an interest in publishing selected 
papers from the workshop in one of its series, we are currently in 
discussions and will confirm details at a later date. Papers should be 
submitted electronically, no later than February 20, 2008. The only 
accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Details about the 
submission procedure will be published on the workshop webpage 
(https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html) closer to the 
time. 
 
*Important Dates*
20 February - Deadline for workshop papers
21 March - Notification of acceptance
4 April - Camera-ready papers due
27 May - Workshop held at LREC 2008

*Programme Committee*
Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Workshop Chair)
Gerhard Budin, Zentrum fur Translationswissenschaft, Univ. Wien, Austria
Ann Devitt, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University, USA
Gerhard Heyer, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
Maria Teresa Musacchio, Universita di Padova, Italy
Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, U.K.
Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, U.K.

*Further Information*
Workshop web page:
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html
LREC 2008 web page:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/