ESSEM 2019

4th Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media:
Media and Arts for Inclusive, Fair and Reflective Societies

Topics of interest

ESSEM aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industry. It wants to take an active part in growing a new field in terms of multidisciplinary research and to investigate open issues by cross-validating different approaches in emotion research. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Affect-related phenomena in social media:

• Subjectivity, sentiments and emotions in social media
• Affect and figurative language, stance or deception in social media
• Moral emotions (e.g. contempt, anger and disgust) in conflictual social interactions
• Emotions beyond stereotypes and prejudice
• Affect and abusive language detection
• Affect and hate speech detection
• Affect and stance detection
• Affect and rumour analysis

Affect-related phenomena in expressive media:

• Affective modeling of the audience
• Affect in reviews and critical reception
• Affective models for interactive performance and entertainment
• Affective models for curation and audience development
• Emotions in storytelling and drama

Affect-related phenomena in interaction:

• Socio-emotional strategies for user engagement
• User engagement in human-human and human-agent interactions using NLP & audio-video analysis
• Grounding affect in conversational context
• Affect and regulation of human-agent interaction
• Affect and emotions in embodiment

Applications:

• Applications of affective computing in multimodal interaction
• Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in social & expressive media
• Applications of sentiment and emotion analysis in implementing countermeasures to foster inclusion and fairness
• Applications of sentiment and emotion analysis to fight misogyny, cyberbullying, homophobia.