Re: Fwd: CFP ESSEM@AAMAS 2015: Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media

Dear all,

Just some news:

- The deadine for the submission of papers at the workshop ESSEM@AAMAS 
2015 has been extended to February 20, 2015.

- Extended versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will be 
published in a follow-on Issue of Springer's Cognitive Computation journal.

All information about the workshop are available at 
http://di.unito.it/essem15.

Hope to see you in Istanbul!

And I also hope to be able to attend the next meeting of the group.

Best,

Viviana

On 12/01/15 16:10, Michael Petychakis wrote:
> Nice workshop that would be of interest for the group.
>
>
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>> *Date: *January 12, 2015 at 4:25:49 PM GMT+2
>> *From: *Viviana Patti <patti@di.unito.it <mailto:patti@di.unito.it>>
>> *To: *<semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>>
>> *Subject: **CFP ESSEM@AAMAS 2015: Emotion and Sentiment in Social and 
>> Expressive Media*
>> *Resent-From: *<semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>>
>>
>> ESSEM@AAMAS 2015
>> 2nd International Workshop on
>> Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media:
>> opportunities and challenges for emotion-aware multiagent systems
>>
>> Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/essem15
>> Submission deadline: February 11, 2015
>>
>> Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com)
>> Workshop date: May 4 or 5, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
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>>
>>
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>>
>> RATIONALE
>> ----------
>>
>> Emotions play a key role in the interactions that occur in a 
>> multi-agent system. Relevant perspectives include, on the one hand, 
>> research on architectures and cognitive models, which is concerned 
>> with the integration of emotional states into agents and the role of 
>> emotions in agent communication; on the other hand, research on 
>> techniques for sentiment analysis and opinion mining, devoted to 
>> automatic processing of affective information conveyed by 
>> spontaneous, multi-faceted user responses about shared contents.
>> The main goal of the workshop is to attain cross-fertilization 
>> between the two perspectives. While the former relies mainly on 
>> cognitively inspired agent models, the latter relies on the use of 
>> statistical and learning techniques supported by resources such as 
>> corpora and linguistic datasets. By proposing ESSEM15 as an AAMAS 
>> workshop, we intend to stimulate a tighter integration of agent-based 
>> paradigms with techniques for sentiment and opinion mining, which 
>> have raised a growing interest in a social web and big data 
>> perspective. We think that, since they typically involve interaction 
>> and feedback as part of their functioning, social and expressive 
>> media — ranging from online communities, blogs and fan-generated 
>> narratives to interactive art installations and digital-based 
>> performances — will provide an effective testbed for:
>>
>> - integrating complementary aspects: emotion generation and 
>> detection, affect expression and reception;
>> - studying the role of affect in the generation of social behavior, 
>> and communicative behavior in particular.
>>
>> As the paradigmatic situation, we envisage a range of applicative 
>> contexts that involve a ‘performance’ of some kind, targeted to some 
>> audience/user, and possibly an interactive one. The 
>> performance/reception paradigm, be it a live execution of an 
>> interactive score, a digitally mediated co-creation session or the 
>> contribution of a single user in a social forum, provides a 
>> conceptual framework for studying affect generation and detection in 
>> an integrated approach. Reception can take the form of immediate 
>> feedback, possibly regulated by a protocol, or of asynchronous 
>> response (such as tags and comments) conveyed through a plurality of 
>> media, against a background shaped by reputation and trust, intended 
>> as a relevant part of the audience value systems. 
>> Performance/reception becomes the common ground where the two 
>> communities meet in a set of tasks that range from managing the 
>> expressive aspects of performance (e.g. embodiment) and its 
>> interactive aspects (e.g. emergent behaviour) to analysing and 
>> measuring the reception by the audience/users, with linguistic levels 
>> ranging from text, music, image, acting, etc. to multimodality.
>> ESSEM 2015 follows the 1st edition of the workshop, held in Turin in 
>> 2013: http://di.unito.it/essem <http://di.unito.it/essem>. With about 
>> 40 registered attendees and a full-day program, the 2013 edition was 
>> an encouraging start for the ESSEM series.
>>
>> TOPICS
>> -------
>>
>> ESSEM aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both 
>> from academy and industry. The workshop wants to take an active part 
>> in growing a new field in terms of multi-disciplinary research and to 
>> identify and investigate important open issues by cross-validating 
>> different approaches in emotion research. Therefore we encourage the 
>> submission of research papers from different areas: intelligent 
>> agents and multi/agent systems, natural language processing, 
>> affective computing, interactive multimodal systems semantic web. 
>> Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
>>
>> - emotions in virtual agents
>> - emotion-aware multi agent systems
>> - subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social & 
>> expressive media
>> - sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social & 
>> expressive media
>> - emotion models and ontologies of emotions
>> - social simulation and emotions in cooperative MAS environments
>> - emotions and regulation of agent interaction
>> - emotions in cooperation and teamwork
>> - role of emotions in agent negotiation
>> - emotions in interactive entertainment (drama, storytelling, games, 
>> etc.)
>> - emotions in embodiment
>> - emotions and norms in agent societies
>> - emotions in multimodal agent interaction
>> - affective behavior
>> - agency and affect in natural language
>> - emotions in human-agent interaction and communication
>> - emotions and models of reputation and trust
>> - applications of sentiment analysis on social & expressive media
>>
>> TIMEFRAME
>> -----------
>>
>> - February 11, 2015: Paper submission deadline
>> - March 10, 2015: Notification of acceptance
>> - March 19, 2015: Final manuscripts due
>> - Workshop date: tba (May 4 or 5)
>>
>> PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not 
>> currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their 
>> significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and 
>> relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of 
>> contributions:
>>
>> - full research papers (up to 12-16 pages)
>> - work-in-progress or demonstrator papers (up to 6-8 pages)
>>
>> All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted 
>> according to the information for LNCS Authors:
>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
>>
>> Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to 
>> EasyChair:
>> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essem2015
>>
>> PROCEEDINGS
>> -------------
>>
>> Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings 
>> published on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), with ISSN.
>>
>> At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the 
>> workshop to present the paper and should then register to the 
>> conference with a workshop fee.
>>
>> The workshop might be followed by a special issue on an ISI journal 
>> (details to be announced).
>> Following up the first workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social 
>> and Expressive Media (ESSEM@AI*IA2013), submissions were invited for 
>> an Elsevier Information Processing & Management special issue on 
>> Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: 
>> http://sentic.net/essem/.
>>
>> PROGRAM CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy
>> Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>> Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy
>> Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
>> Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
>>
>> PUBLICITY CHAIR
>> ---------------
>>
>> Cristina Battaglino, University of Torino, Italy
>> email: battagli@di.unito.it
>>
>> PROGRAM COMMITTEE  (to be completed)
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
>> Cristina Battaglino, University of Torino, Italy
>> Andrea Bolioli, CELI, Italy
>> Paula Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, LASIGE, 
>> Portugal
>> Chloé Clavel, Telecom-ParisTech, France
>> Morena    Danieli, University of Trento, Italy
>> Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India
>> Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
>> Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
>> Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
>> Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
>> Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
>> Anup Kalia, North Carolina State University, Releigh, USA
>> Iolanda    Leite, Yale University, USA
>> Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
>> Viviana    Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
>> Malvina    Nissim, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
>> Nicole Novielli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
>> Antonio    Origlia, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
>> Roberto Paredes, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
>> Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 
>> Austria
>> Daniele Radicioni, University of Torino, Italy
>> Francisco Rangel, Autoritas Consulting, Spain
>> Hassan    Saif, The Open University - Knowledge Media Institute, UK
>> Bjoern Schuller, University of Passau / Imperial College London, 
>> Germany / UK
>> Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
>> Michael    Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK
>> Marko Tkalcic, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
>> Emilio Vivancos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
>> Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy
>> Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA
>>
>> SPONSORS
>> ----------
>>
>> The ESSEM 2015 workshop is under the auspices of:
>>
>> - CELI: http://www.celi.it/en/
>> - CIRMA: http://www.cirma.unito.it/eng/
>> - WIQ-EI - Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative
>>
>> CONTACT
>> ---------
>>
>> If you have any questions regarding the workshop please send us an 
>> e-mail to: essem2015@easychair.org
>>
>> Workshop web site: http://di.unito.it/essem15
>>
>> FOLLOW US!
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>>
>> Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Essem2015
>> Spread the news: #essem2015
>> Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Essem2015
>> Follow us on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103784344195297543082/posts
>>
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