Dear colleagues,

We are inviting you to contribute to the 6th KDD Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM) to be held in conjunction with KDD’17 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on August 14, 2017. WISDOM aims to motivate researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields to enhance the development of novel opinion mining and sentiment analysis techniques. For more information about the workshop and submission details, please visit http://www.sentic.net/wisdom/#wisdom17.

TOPICS
WISDOM aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Concept-level sentiment analysis
* Biologically-inspired opinion mining
* Big social data analysis
* Sentiment identification and classification
* Knowledge-based opinion mining
* Sentiment summarization and visualization
* Entity discovery and extraction
* Opinion aggregation
* Opinion search and retrieval
* Time evolving sentiment analysis
* Opinion spam detection
* Sarcasm detection in sentiment modeling
* Comparative opinion analysis
* Topic detection and trend discovery
* Psychological models for sentiment analysis
* Multilingual opinion mining
* Social ranking
* Social network analysis
* Influence, trust and privacy analysis
* Business intelligence applications
* Deep learning and sentiment analysis

TIMEFRAME
* May 26, 2017: Submission deadline
* June 16, 2017: Notification of acceptance
* July 1, 2017: Final manuscripts due
* August 14, 2017: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
* Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Corporation (USA)
* Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
* Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
* Yunqing Xia, Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Best regards,
WISDOM’17 organizing committee