DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Affect analysis of content to measure emotions and its experiences is
a multidisciplinary research area with limited cross-disciplinary collaboration. Other disciplines have adopted psychological models of affect - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Linguistics (CL) and Human-computer Interaction (HCI) - to conceptualize
and measure users’ opinions, intentions, and expressions. However, the context-specific characteristics of human affect suggest the need to measure in ways that recognize multiple interpretations of human responses.

Invited speakers:
Ellen Riloff (University of Utah), Alon Halevy (Megagon Labs), Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), Pranav Anand (University of Santa Cruz)


CALL FOR SHARED TASK SUBMISSIONS: CL-AFF: IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
We also invite submissions for the First Shared Task on Computational
Linguistics for Affect Understanding. CL-AFF 2019 comprises two sub-tasks for analyzing happiness and wellbeing in written language, based on a corpus of 100,000 descriptions of happy moments from HappyDB.


Workshop topics:
The theme of the 2nd Affective Content Analysis workshop is “Modeling Affect in Action.” We welcome submissions on topics including (but not limited to):
● Machine learning and Deep learning models for affect modeling in content (image, audio, and video)
● Affect-aware text generation
● Spoken and formal language comparison
● Measurement and evaluation of affective content
● Affective commonsense reasoning
● Affective human-agent, -computer, and-robot interaction
● Multimodal emotion recognition and sentiment analysis
● Psycho-demographic profiling
● Psycho-linguistics, including stylometrics and typography
● Modeling consumer’s affect reactions
● Computational models for consumer behavior theories
● Consumer psychology at scale from big data

Full CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/affcon2019/home
Proceedings of AffCon @ AAAI 2018: https://aaai.org/Library/Workshops/ws18-01.php
Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/conference_dir.cgi?a=19604803

Important Dates:
October 25, 2018 :Abstract Submission (Optional)
DEADLINE EXTENDED: November 12, 2018: Submission deadline
November 26, 2018 : Notification of acceptance/rejection
November 30, 2018: Early registration deadline
December 5, 2018: Camera-ready versions due
January 27-28, 2019 : Workshop at AAAI 2019

Co-chairs:
Niyati Chhaya (Adobe Research, nchhaya@adobe.com),
Kokil Jaidka (University of Pennsylvania, kokil.j@gmail.com ),
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania, ungar@cis.upenn.edu),
Atanu R Sinha (Adobe Research, atr@adobe.com)
Shared Task Data contributed by Megagon Labs