There will be a half-day sentiment analysis research session, Tuesday November 8, 2011 in San Francisco, preceding the November 9 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, which is more applications focused.

A Call for Presentations is open through September 23. Academic and industry researchers are invited to propose a talk. Presentations should address research challenges and the techniques developed or adopted to meet those challenges. The page http://sentimentsymposium.com/research.html lists suggested topics in four categories --
Sentiment components
Sentiment and Social Networks
Business Intelligence and Sentiment Analysis Applications
Assessment and evaluation of approaches to sentiment analysis
-- but do consider them as providing guidance only.

Proposals will be evaluated by a program committee consisting of Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin; Tom H.C. Anderson, Anderson Analytics; Lipika Dey, Tata Consultancy Services; Christopher Potts, Stanford University; Sara Owsley Sood, Pomona College.

The program for the full Sentiment Analysis Symposium is at http://sentimentsymposium.com/agenda.html .