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                             Preface
    This edition of the Workshop on Semantic Sentiment Analysis (SSA2014)
was the first on this topic in the semantic web community. It was organised
as a half-day event, co-located with the 11th European Semantic Web Con-
ference (ESWC2014). Our aim in launching this workshop was twofold: (i)
providing a space for proposing and discussing new methods and applications
of semantics in sentiment analysis; and (ii) broadening the sentiment anal-
ysis community towards the incorporation of semantic features. Semantics
have shown to improve precision and accuracy of traditional sentiment anal-
ysis methods. The workshop was also linked to the Concept-Level Sentiment
Analysis Challenge, where users submitted their practical systems that had
to include semantics features to solve different tasks in the sentiment analysis
domain.
    The workshop included oral presentations, a panel session, and an invited
talk by Mauro Dragoni, who participated in the semantic sentiment analy-
sis challenge: A Fuzzy System For Semantic Sentiment Analysis, by Mauro
Dragoni, Andrea Tettamanzi and Celia Da Costa Pereira.
    Altogether, SSA2014 received six research paper submissions. From among
these submissions, the Program Committee selected four research papers for
presentation at the workshop. Additionally, the organisers of each ESWC
Workshop were asked to indicate the workshop’s “best paper”. Authors
were then invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work
for inclusion in the main Conference proceedings. Based on the reviewers’
scores, we selected the paper Adapting Sentiment Lexicons using Contextual
Semantics for Twitter Sentiment Analysis, by Hassan Saif, Yulan He, Miriam
Fernandez and Harith Alani.
    We are grateful to the Programme Committee for their hard work, and
to the authors for submitting their papers and for addressing the reviewers’
comments. We would also like to thank the organisers of the 11th European
Semantic Web Conference for hosting SSA2014 at ESWC2014 and for giv-
ing us the opportunity to organise this workshop in such an interesting and
stimulating scientific environment. Further information about the Workshop
on Semantic Sentiment Analysis can be found at:
http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/SemanticSentimentAnalysis2014

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November 2014

SSA2014 Chairs

Aldo Gangemi
Harith Alani
Malvina Nissim
Erik Cambria
Diego Reforgiato Recupero




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