ESSEM 2013 - 1st International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media

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Proceedings of ESSEM 2013 (1st International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media), held on December 3, 2013 in Turin, within the AI*IA 2013 anniversary framework. The preface highlights the need to connect sentiment analysis and emotion detection with social and expressive media, including creativity-related domains such as figurative arts, music and drama. The workshop aims to bridge affective computing communities, covering sentiment/opinion mining for social data and cognitive models in agents, and to encourage research and artwork submissions that enable emotion elicitation and feedback through emotion-aware technologies.

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Pages226

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Preface

Workshop goals and motivation

Focus areas in creativity and expressive media

Submission and selection process

Acknowledgements and sponsors

Proceedings ESSEM 2013 1st International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media approaches and perspectives from AI Edited by Cristina Battaglino Cristina Bosco Erik Cambria Rossana Damiano Viviana Patti Paolo Rosso December 3rd, 2013, Torino, Italy A workshop of AI*IA 2013-25th Year Anniversary Preface The 1st International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 20131 ) is taking place on December 3rd, 2013, in Turin as a workshop of the XIII conference of the Italian Association for Artiﬁcial Intelligence (AI*IA 2013) . Sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending topics since a while, but not enough emphasis has been placed so far on their relations with in social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key role in applicative ﬁelds related to creativity, its expressions and outcomes, such as ﬁgurative arts, music or drama. In such ﬁelds, the advent of digital social media has brought about new paradigms of interactions that foster ﬁrst-person engagement and crowdsourcing content creation: the subjective and expressive dimensions move to the foreground, opening the way to the emergence of an affective component within a dynamic corpus of contents-contributed or enriched by users. This calls for delving into the evolution of approaches, techniques and tools for modeling and analyzing emotion and sentiment. The workshop aims at bridging between the communities of AI researchers working in the ﬁeld of a↵ective computing under di↵erent perspectives. Such perspectives include, on the one hand, research on models and techniques for sentiment analysis and opinion mining on linguistic corpora and unstructured data from social web; on the other hand, research on formal and cognitive models in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. We believe that cross-fertilization between di↵erent but related communities is precious in order to face open challenges, in particular, the ones raised by the social and expressive media, e.g: – extracting concept-level sentiment conveyed by social media texts by relying on structured knowledge of a↵ective information, i.e. a↵ective categorization models expressed by ontologies, better still if psychologically motivated and encoded in the semantic web standards; – cross-validation between sentiment-based approaches and cognitive models; – investigating advanced social aspects of emotions, i.e. regulative or ethic issues related to emotions in virtual agents; – fostering the interoperability and integration of tools by encouraging compliance with emerging standards. Given the leading thread described above, we have proposed a special focus for ESSEM 2013: emotions and sentiment in applicative ﬁelds related to creativity, its expressions and its outcomes, i.e. ﬁgurative arts, music, drama, etc. Artistic creation and performance, in fact, provide a very interesting testbed for cross-validating and possibly integrating approaches, models and tools for automatically analyzing and generating emotion and sentiment. On this line, we encouraged the submission of research papers investigating aspects of emotion 1 [http://di.unito.it/essem](http://di.unito.it/essem) and sentiment in ﬁelds related to creativity and expressive media. Moreover, in order to foster the bringing together of artists and researchers reﬂecting on the ESSEM themes, we launched a call for artworks, by welcoming submissions of artworks, where the generation of artistic contents or the implementation of new forms of interaction with the audience relies on a↵ecting computing or stems from a media design speciﬁcally and recognizably tailored to the elicitation of emotions and emotional feedback. We were very pleased to receive 38 submissions from 13 di↵erent countries, distributed among full, short, position and artwork papers. We provided authors with 3 reviews per full/short/position paper. The program committee

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What is the purpose of ESSEM 2013?

ESSEM 2013 aims to connect research on emotion and sentiment analysis with social and expressive media, especially in creativity-oriented fields like arts, music, and drama.

Which research directions does the workshop emphasize?

It emphasizes sentiment analysis and opinion mining from social media data, as well as formal and cognitive models in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, including cross-validation between approaches.

How were papers and artworks selected for the proceedings?

The workshop received 38 submissions from 13 countries and provided authors with three reviews per full/short/position paper. Ten full papers, five short papers, two position papers, and five selected artwork contributions were included.

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