Submissions are invited for a special session on Sentiment Analysis for Asian Languages (SAAL) to be held within the 2012 International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), taking place from 9th to 12th June in Dalian (China).
ABSTRACT
To date, the majority of sentiment analysis research has been focused on English language. But, recent studies show that non-native English speakers support the growing use of Internet. Although a few isolated research endeavors have been noticed by a few research groups for Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, Thai and for other Indo-Aryan languages like Bengali, Hindi etc., more and more research efforts are required to meet the demands of the real life multilingual environment. In the present scenario, this special session aims to provide a platform to Asian sentiment analysis researchers for discussing the sentiment analysis challenges and solutions methodologies for their respective languages.
Natural language processing research endeavor primarily depends on the availability of resources like corpus, lexicon etc. For that reason, sentiment analysis research for Asian languages is still striving as for the scarcity of resources like sentiment lexicon or corpus. Firstly, the expected issues for the present special session are the generation of sentiment resources for the Asian languages. Secondly, this special session would like to encourage the cultivation of sentiment analysis research by discussing the challenges and methodologies for the rich morpho-syntactic Asian languages. Finally, our plan is to make a common portal by which the Asian researchers can access and share sentiment analysis resources for their own languages. We strongly recommend every active Asian sentiment analysis research group to contribute their research efforts in this special session.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Generation of Sentiment Analysis Resources for Asian Languages
• New methodologies of Sentiment Analysis for Asian Languages
• Evaluation methodologies
• Applications of Sentiment Analysis for Asian Languages
• Sentiment Search Engines for Asian Languages
• Applications of sentiment analysis
• Machine Translation for Sentiment Analysis
• Knowledge-Based Systems for Sentiment Analysis
TIMEFRAME
• January 6th, 2012: Due date for Special Session papers
• February 6th, 2012: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
• March 1st, 2012: Camera-ready of accepted papers
• June 12th, 2012: Special Session date
ORGANIZERS
• Amitava Das, Jadavpur University (India)
• Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
