Location Details:
All regular sessions will be held in room 200-034, Monday - Wednesday.
The poster session will be held in the Annenberg Auditorium on Tuesday from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
Monday, March 22, 2004
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Session (Janyce Wiebe)
9:10 - 10:30 Session: Recognizing Attitude and Affect in Text (Chair: Janyce Wiebe)
(L) Automatic Extraction of Opinion Propositions and their Holders
Steven Bethard, Hong Yu, Ashley Thornton, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Dan Jurafsky
(L) Approaches for Automatically Tagging Affect
Nathanael Chambers, Joel Tetreault, James Allen
(S) Argumentative Zoning for improved citation indexing
Simone Teufel
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session: Lexical Acquisition (Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy)
(L) Validating the Coverage of Lexical Resources for Affect Analysis and Automatically Classifying New Words along Semantic Axes
Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, David A. Evans, James G. Shanahan
(L) Building a Weighted Dictionary for Referential Activity
Wilma Bucci, Bernard Maskit
(L) Acquisition of Subjective Adjectives with Limited Resources
Stefano Vegnaduzzo
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Panel: Colossal Conundrums in Automatic Identification of Attitude and Affect
INVITED DISCUSSANTS
• David Evans, Clairvoyance Corporation
• Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Columbia University
• Richard Tong, Tarragon Consulting Corporation
PANEL MODERATORS
• Yan Qu, Clairvoyance Corporation
• Claire Cardie, Cornell University
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Session: Applications, Part I (Chair: James G. Shanahan)
(L) Generalized Opinion Pooling
Ashutosh Garg, T. S. Jayram, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu
(S) Impact of Lexical Filtering on Overall Opinion Polarity Identification
Franco Salvetti, Stephen Lewis, Christoph Reichenbach
(S) An Affect-Based Text Mining System for Qualitative Analysis of Japanese Free Text
Makoto Sano
(S) Good News or Bad News? Let the Market Decide
Moshe Koppel and Itai Shtrimberg
6:00 - 7:00 Informal Reception
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
9:00 - 9:30 Session: Applications, Part II (Chair: Yan Qu)
(L) Towards a Robust Metric of Opinion
Kamal Nigam, Matthew Hurst
9:30 - 10:30 Panel: Is large scale
commercial opinion / affect mining possible?
INVITED
DISCUSSANTS
• Amir Ashkenazi, Shopping.com
• Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation
• Matt Hurst, Intelliseek
• Wayne Niblack, IBM Research Almaden
PANEL MODERATORS
• James G. Shanahan, Clairvoyance Corporation
• Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Session: Annotation (Chair: Noriko Kando)
(L) Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Diane Litman, Janyce Wiebe
(L) A two dimensional annotation scheme for emotion in dialogue
Richard Craggs, Mary McGee Wood
12:00 - 12:30 Poster Boaster Session I (Chair: Yan Qu)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:10 Session: Generation and Summarization (Chair: Claire Cardie)
(L) Generating more-positive and more-negative text
Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Ol’ga Feiguina and Graeme Hirst
(S) Analysis of Linguistic Features Associated with Point of View for Generating Stylistically Appropriate Text
Nancy L. Green
(S) Politeness and Summarization: an Exploratory Study
Norton Trevisan Roman, Paul Piwek, Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho
3:10 - 3:30 Poster Boaster Session II (Chair: Yan Qu)
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Poster Session
6:00 - 7:30 General Plenary Session
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
9:00 - 10:00 Session: Linguistic Models (Chair: David A. Evans)
(S) Conjunction and Modal Assessment in Genre Classification: A Corpus-Based Study of Historical and Experimental Science Writing
Shlomo Argamon, Jeff Dodick
(S) Certainty Categorization Model
Victoria L. Rubin, Noriko Kando, Elizabeth D. Liddy,
(S) Contextual Lexical Valence Shifters
Livia Polanyi, Annie Zaenen
10:00 - 10:30 Panel: Annotation and Linguistic Models, Part I
"Annotating attitude and affect in text to support NLP applications:
What are the most important challenges to take on next?"
INVITED
DISCUSSANTS
• Sabine Bergler,
Concordia
University
• Jon Patrick, University of Sydney
• Peter White, University of Birmingham
• Livia Polanyi, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
PANEL MODERATOR: Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Panel: Annotation and Linguistic Models, Part II
"Annotating attitude and affect in text to support NLP applications:
What are the most important challenges to take on next?"
INVITED DISCUSSANTS
• Sabine Bergler,
Concordia
University
• Jon Patrick, University of Sydney
• Peter White, University of Birmingham
• Livia Polanyi, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
PANEL MODERATOR: Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
11:30 - 12:30 Workshop Closing Session (James G. Shanahan)