CFP - PEOPLES 2020 - COLING Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media

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PEOPLES 2020

3rd WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF PEOPLE’S OPINIONS, PERSONALITY, AND EMOTIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

https://peopleswksh.github.io/ <https://peopleswksh.github.io/>   

Co-located with COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain
September 14, 2020
   
Paper submission deadline:  May  20, 2020

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

On social media, users nowadays freely express what is on their mind at any moment in time, at any location, and about virtually anything.  These large amounts of spontaneously produced texts  open  up  a  unique  opportunity  to  learn  more  about  language use in connection with socio-demographic as well as opinion-related variables.  However, such variables have been mostly studied in isolation, often in different - but related - communities. PEOPLES  aims  at  bringing  these  diverse  communities  a  step  closer  to  each  other,  to  study people’s traits and expressions jointly and in their interplay. This foster studies on their  interaction, and on how their computational modelling impacts both NLP and society.  This is important also in light of recent active discussions regarding ethical and bias-related aspects in NLP. PEOPLES  2020  would  be  the  continuation  of  successful  editions  that  were  held  at  COLING 2016 and NAACL 2018, by continuing to provide a forum for researchers who share an interest in personality, opinion and emotion detection, as well as the impact of this work on society.

We encourage the submission of both long and short research papers as well as opinion statements. We will especially welcome views from different fields, and will welcome submissions related but not limited to the following topics:

- opinion, personality and emotion detection in social media
- opinions, personality and emotions and their interactions
- interaction between personality, opinion and emotions with socio-demographic variables
- interaction between personality, opinion and emotions and geo-spatial information
- interaction between socio-demographic, personality, opinion and emotions with politics- analysis of social networks with attributes (e.g. socio-demographic attributes or opinions)
- modeling of personality, opinion and emotions from a multimodal perspective
- multilingual approaches to demographic inference from social media
- multilingual approaches to opinion, emotions and personality detection
- cross-cultural analysis of opinion, emotions, personality in multilingual social media data
- applications of predictive modeling of user traits
- bias-related issues, and the ethics of predictive modeling of user attributes

*Keynote Speakers*

David Jurgens, University of Michigan, US http://jurgens.people.si.umich.edu <http://jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/>  

*Paper Submission*

Standard research papers should be a maximum of 8 pages for long papers, and 4 pages for short papers. Position papers can be both long and short. For all paper types, unlimited pages for references are allowed. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the START system, available at:

https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/PEOPLES/ <https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/PEOPLES/>  

Submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2020 style templates (https://coling2020.org/pages/call_for_papers <https://coling2020.org/pages/call_for_papers>)

All accepted papers will be published in the ACL anthology via the conference proceedings. 

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline: May 20, 2020
Notification: June 24, 2020
Camera ready: July 11, 2020
Workshop: September 14, 2020


*Programme Committee*

Maria Barrett, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy
Valerio Basile, University of Turin, Italy
Meriem Beloucif, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chloé Clavel, LTCI-CNRS, Telecom-ParisTech, France
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India
Esin Durmus, Cornell University, US
Tommaso Fornaciari, Bocconi University, Italy
Aparna Garimella, University of Michigan, US
Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta
Rob van de Goot, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mareike Hartmann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Aditya Joshi, CSIRO, AU
Svetlana Kiritchenko, NRC-Canada, Canada
Florian Kuhnemann, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fei Liu, Melbourne University, Australia
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Kim Luyckx, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium
Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Scott Nowson, Artificial Intelligence Lead, PwC Middle East, United Arab Emirates
Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Bloomberg LP, US
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Ingmar Weber, QCRI, Qatar
Charlie Welch, University of Michigan, US


*General Chairs and Organisers*
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Viviana Patti, University of Turin, Italy
Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

*Publicity and Publication Chair*
Esin Durmus, Cornell University, US

If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, contact us via email: peopleswksh@gmail.com 

*Sponsors*
PEOPLES 2020 is supported by CELI Language Technology and Computational Linguistics group of CLCG, University of Groningen

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