AffCon 2019
2nd Workshop on Affective Content Analysis

Table of Contents

• Editorial for the 2nd Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon) at AAAI 2019 1-11
  Niyati Chhaya , Kokil Jaidka , Atanu Sinha , Lyle Ungar
  

Session 1

• (keynote) Identifying Affective Events and the Reasons for their Polarity
  Ellen Riloff
  
• (Best paper) Scalable Privacy-Compliant Virality Prediction on Twitter 12-27
  Damian Kowalczyk , Jan Larsen
  
• Partners in Crime: Utilizing Arousal-Valence Relationship for Continuous Prediction of Valence in Movies 28-38
  Tanmayee Joshi , Sarath Sivaprasad , Niranjan Pedanekar
  

Session 2

• (keynote) Affective Search: Helping Users Create Positive Experiences
  Alon Halevy
  
• The CL-Aff Happiness Shared Task: Results and Key Insights 39-49
  Kokil Jaidka , Saran Mumick , Niyati Chhaya , Lyle Ungar
  
• (poster) (Best System, CL-Aff Shared Task 2019) Happy Together: Learning and Understanding Appraisal From Natural Language 50-59
  Arun Rajendran , Chiyu Zhang , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
  

Session 3

• (keynote) Grounded Emotions
  Rada Mihalcea
  
• Adversarial and Cooperative Correlated Domain Adaptation based Multimodal Emotion Recognition 60-71
  Jielin Qiu Xiaoshi Chen , Kai Hu
  
• (poster) Emotional Experience of Students Interacting with a System for Learning Programming (short paper) 72-79
  Thomas James Tiam-Lee , Kaoru Sumi
  
• (poster) Audio Sentiment Analysis by Heterogeneous Signal Features Learned from Utterance-Based Parallel Neural Network (short paper) 80-87
  Ziqian Luo , Hua Xu , Feiyang Chen
  
• (poster) A Novel Machine Learning-based Sentiment Analysis Method for Chinese Social Media Considering Chinese Slang Lexicon and Emoticons 88-103
  Da Li , Rafal Rzepka , Michal Ptaszynski , Kenji Araki
  

Session 4

• (keynote) Using Social Media Language to Understand Empathy and Stress
  Lyle Ungar
  
• (poster) (Runner-up for Best System, CL-Aff Shared Task 2019) Word Pair Convolutional Model for Happy Moment Classification (short paper) 111-119
  Michael Saxon , Samarth Bhandari , Lewis Ruskin , Gabrielle Honda
  
• (poster) (Runner-up for Best System, CL-Aff Shared Task 2019) Ingredients for Happiness: Modeling constructs via semi-supervised content driven inductive transfer (short paper) 120-128
  Bakhtiyar Syed , Vijayasaradhi Indurthi , Kulin Shah , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma
  
• (poster) CruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness 129-139
  Geetanjali Rakshit , Jiaqi Wu , Ryan Compton , Marilyn Walker , Pranav Anand , Steve Whittaker
  
• (poster) Squared English Word: A Method of Generating Glyph to Use Super Characters for Sentiment Analysis (short paper) 140-151
  Baohua Sun , Lin Yang , Catherine Chi , Wenhan Zhang , Michael Lin
  
• (poster) What Constitutes Happiness? Predicting and Characterizing the Ingredients of Happiness Using Emotion Intensity Analysis 152-163
  Raj Kumar Gupta Prasanta Bhattacharya , Yinping Yang
  
• (poster) Happiness Ingredients Detection using Multi-Task Deep Learning (short paper) 164-170
  Weizhao Xin , Diana Inkpen
  
• (poster) CL-Aff Deep semisupervised clustering 171-180
  Johnny Torres , Carmen Vaca
  
• (poster) Modeling Happiness Using One-Class Autoencoder 181-190
  Byung-Chull Bae , Yun Gyung Cheong , Youngrok Song .
• (poster) IoH-RCNN: Pursue the Ingredients of Happiness using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (short paper) 191-197
  Bashar Talafha , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub
• (poster) Affective Content Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks 198-207
  Daniel Claeser
• (keynote) Beyond Detection and Computation of Affect: Interpretation and Decision
  Atanu Sinha