Call for Papers
Sixth International Workshop on eXplainable SENTIment Mining and EmotioN deTection held as a part of ESWC 2021.

Workshop: June 7th, 2021 - Hersonissos, Greece or Online
https://danilo-dessi.github.io/xsentiment/

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Important Dates

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Submission deadline: March 1st, 2021 March 14th, 2021
Notifications: March 31st, 2021
Camera-Ready Contributions: April 9th, 2021
Final papers zip archive: April 16th, 2021
Workshop: June 7th, 2021

All deadlines are 11:59pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).

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Workshop Aims and Scope

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As the Web rapidly evolves, people are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis. Therefore, it is critical to correctly interpret sentiments and opinions expressed or reported about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and any other form or online interaction. Models driven by sub-symbolic Artificial Intelligence such as machine learning algorithms and vector representations have achieved state-of-the-art results for Sentiment Analysis tasks.

Sub-symbolic AI models get very accurate results but with a limited understanding of patterns and features used to correctly classify into sentiment categories. Thus, these models lack transparency, traceability, and explainability on how the decisions are taken.

This limits Artificial Intelligence methods to produce human-comprehensible solutions, reducing the trust towards the machine generated results. Within this scenario, semantic technologies with explicit semantics can be leveraged to explain why a resource has been classified in a specific sentiment category, inducing trustworthiness and avoiding biases.


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Workshop Keywords

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Sentiment Analysis - Deep Learning - Knowledge Graphs - Explainability


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Workshop Topics

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We are interested in novel contributions to explain Sentiment Analysis results through the use and development of methodologies based on semantics, focused but not limited to the following areas:


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Submission Details

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The submissions must be in English and adhere to the CEUR-WS one-column
template. The papers should be submitted as PDF files to OpenReview. The review process will be single-blind. Please be aware that at least one author per paper must be registered and attend the workshop to present the work.

We will consider three different submission types:


Submissions should not exceed the indicated number of pages, including any diagrams and references.

Each submission will be reviewed by three independent reviewers on the basis of relevance for the workshop, novelty/originality, significance, technical quality and correctness, quality and clarity of presentation, quality of references and reproducibility.

The accepted papers and the material generated during the meeting will be available on the workshop website. The workshop proceedings will be sent for inclusion in a CEUR-WS volume and consequently indexed on Google Scholar, DBLP, and Scopus. The best paper may be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2021, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.


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Attending

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TBD

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Workshop Chairs

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Davide Buscaldi
https://sites.google.com/site/davidebuscaldi/
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord (LIPN)
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Email:
davide.buscaldi@lipn.univ-paris13.fr

Danilo Dessì
https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/forschung/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-danilo-dessi
Information Service Engineering
FIZ- Karlsruhe Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Institute AIFB
Email:
danilo.dessi@fiz-karlsruhe.de

Mauro Dragoni
https://pdi.fbk.eu/people/profile/dragoni
Process & Data Intelligence - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
University of Trento
Email:
dragoni@fbk.eu

Diego Reforgiato Recupero
https://people.unica.it/diegoreforgiato/en/
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Cagliari
Email:
diego.reforgiato@unica.it

Harald Sack
https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/forschung/lebenslauf-prof-dr-harald-sack
Information Service Engineering
FIZ- Karlsruhe Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Institute AIFB
Email:
harald.sack@fiz-karlsruhe.de


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Contacts

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For general enquiries on the workshop, please send an email to
danilo.dessi@fiz-karlsruhe.de