HOMSA-2013

        1st International Workshop on
        HISPANIC OPINION MINING and SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
        
        in conjunction with the
        12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

        November 25 and/or 26, 2013
        Publication: post-conf book by Springer
        www.micai.org/2013/ws/homsa
        Submission deadline: to be defined


GENERAL INFORMATION

Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis are hot topics in Natural Language Processing due to commercial interest of large companies and governments. A usual application scenario involves massive analysis of blog comments or posts to Facebook or Twitter with the goal to detect and summarize people's opinion about a commercial product (say, a model of iPhone), actions of a political party or government (cf. the role of social networks in the recent events in the Arab world), a political candidate (say, running for president), a company (say, Microsoft), a movie, an artist, etc. To companies and governments, this allows to improve the product, political actions, or company policies. To consumers or citizens, this allows to affect the corresponding policies in real time using social networks and blogs. Opinion mining technology is also a key component of recommender systems, such as book, movie, or music recommendation. Eventually, this technology leads to better income for businesses, better quality of life for consumers, and better, real-time democracy.

Spanish is the third most-spoken language in the world, with a great number of consumers and voters in America, Europe, and some areas of Africa and Asia. At the same time, it is under-resourced as to language technologies and lexical resources. We believe that a book on opinion mining and sentiment analysis focused specifically on Spanish would be a success.

Publication: Extended versions of papers accepted for long oral presentation will be published in a post-conference book by Springer; we may also offer other publication options for the papers that we do not find suitable for that book. We may decide to publish the original, non-extended versions in a preliminary proceedings brochure.

The workshop is organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) and hosted by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco in conjunction with the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013. The attendees of the workshop are advised to also register for the main conference, to take advantage of its cultural program, keynote talks, regular talks, dinner, etc. (not included in the workshop registration).


TOPICS

Topics of interest are all those related with Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis, provided that the discussion is devoted to, or related with, Spanish language and/or Spanish-speaking community. For topics not related with sentiment analysis or not related with Spanish language, consider submitting instead to the NLP track of the main MICAI 2013 conference or to the CICLing 2014 conference. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Lexical resources; Emotion detection; Social networks; Analysis of blogs and reviews; Recommender systems; Personality detection; Multimodality: speech, video; Multi-lingual and cross-lingual issues; Applications.


IMPORTANT DATES

To be defined. 

VENUE

Mexico City.


CULTURAL PROGRAM

Tours to the Pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan: 2000 years old pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage site; Anthropology museum: world's largest anthropology museum; Valle de Bravo "magic village" (tentatively) are anticipated to be offered by MICAI 2013 (not included in the workshop registration). Teotihuacan is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Americas.


KEYNOTE TALKS AT MICAI 2013 (not included in workshop registration):


- Erik Cambria, NUS, Singapore: "SenticNet: Helping Machines to Learn, Leverage, Love"

- Maria Vargas-Vera, Chile: "Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping Framework for the Semantic Web"

- Newton Howard, MIT, USA: "Rethinking Artificial Intelligence"

- Amir Hussain, U. of Stirling, UK: "Towards Multi-modal Cognitive Systems: A Case Study in Autonomous Vehicle Control and Some Future Research Directions"

- Ildar Batyrshin, IMP, Mexico: "Time Series Shape Association Measures"


GENERAL INQUERIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION 

Chairs:
        Erik Cambria (NUS),
        Alexander Gelbukh (IPN, www.Gelbukh.com),
        Newton Howard (MIT).

Inquires: homsa2103(?)micai.org.


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