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WOMSA: 1st Workshop on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
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At CAEPIA-TTIA Conference
November 13, 2009
Seville, Spain
http://www.lsi.us.es/womsa09/



Aims and scope
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"What do people think about?", this is perhaps the question
that better describes the scope of the workshop. In a world
in which millions of people write their opinions about any
issue in blogs, news sites, review sites or social media,
the distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of
unstructured information is a challenging task. Sentiment
Analysis and Opinion Mining are two areas related to Natural
Language Processing and Text Mining that deal with the
identification of opinions and attitudes in natural language
texts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Opinion classification
- Opinion extraction
- Opinion summarization and visualization
- Recommender systems
- User generated content and social media analysis
- Blogs analysis
- Sentiment and subjectivity analysis
- Applications: politics, business intelligence, sociology,
marketing research, ...


How to participate
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You are invited to submit a position paper or a research
paper as a PDF file of no more than 10 pages. Original
research papers are preferred, but are also welcome reports
on already published works, and ongoing research papers.
The papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNAI
instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submissions can be written in either English or Spanish and
should be sent to womsa@us.es, they will be reviewed by at
least two program committee members.


Important dates
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Paper submission deadline September 4, 2009
Notification of acceptance October 2, 2009
Camera-ready paper October 12, 2009
Workshop November 13, 2009


Workshop Organizer
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Jos? A. Troyano Jim?nez, University of Seville


Program Committee
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Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu, University of Alicante
Ferm?n Cruz Mata, University of Seville
V?ctor D?az Madrigal, University of Seville
Patricio Mart?nez-Barco, University of Alicante
Andr?s Montoyo Guijarro, University of Alicante
Manuel Palomar Sanz, University of Alicante
Horacio Rodr?guez Hontoria, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Jos? A. Troyano Jim?nez, University of Seville
Jordi Turmo Borr?s, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
L. Alfonso Ure?a L?pez, University of Ja?n