In the past years, the quantity of contents generated by users on the Web, in social networking sites,
fora and microblogs has reached an unprecedented level. All this data adds on to the contents generated
in traditional media, such as newspapers, bringing additional factual, as well as a high quantity of
opinionated and subjective information. In the context of the society in which we live, where sifting
through the immense quantities of information to gather knowledge has become a must, the challenge
of processing opinionated and subjective information is becoming more and more a focus to the Natural
Language Processing (NLP) research communities worldwide.
In the past decade, the interest in proposing computational methods to deal with subjectivity and
sentiment in text has grown constantly from the NLP community. However, although the subjectivity
and sentiment analysis research fields have been highly dynamic in this period, much remains still to
be done, so that systems dealing with subjectivity, sentiment and, more generally, affect in text, can be
reliably used in critical decision-making environments. Moreover, the new means of communication
and user connection, in microblogs and social networks, become more and more relevant to these two
tasks, as the contexts (internal and external) of the information communication process bring about new
challenges and applications to be explored.
Inspired by the above-mentioned issues and the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of
the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA 2010 and WASSA
2.011), the purpose of the third edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) was to create a framework for presenting and discussing the
challenges related to subjectivity and sentiment analysis in NLP and its applications, in traditional
and Social Media contexts, from an interdisciplinary theoretical and practical perspective. WASSA
2012 was organized in conjunction to the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, on July 12, 2012, in Jeju, Korea.
BALAHUR DOBRESCU Alexandra;
2013-03-15
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
JRC75596
978-1-937284-33-6,
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W12/#3700,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC75596,
