WASSA 2017

WASSA 2017
Event in series	WASSA
Dates	2017/09/08 -
Location
Location:	Copenhagen, Denmark
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Accepted short papers:	5
Papers:	Submitted 41 / Accepted 15 (36.6 %)
Committees
General chairs:	Alexandra Balahur, Saif M. Mohammad, Erik van der Goot
Keynote speaker:	Iryna Gurevych, Aditya Joshi, Viktor Pekar
Table of Contents

WASSA 2017 was organized in conjunction to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2017 on September 8th, 2017, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

TOPICS

• research and applications of Sentiment Analysis

The main topics of the accepted papers are related to

• stance detection
• argument mining and beyond sentiment analysic challenges, such as irony detection or linking emotions to needs
• and values - e.g. psychometrics.

Apart from that, for the first time, we presented a shared task on automatically detecting intensity of emotion felt by the speaker of a tweet: WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity. Twentytwo teams participated in the shared task, with results that showcase the latest developments in the theoretical and applied areas of Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining.