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==Editorial for the 2nd Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon) at AAAI 2019==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2328/editorial.pdf
Editorial for the 2nd AAAI-19 Workshop on
Affective Content Analysis
Niyati Chhaya1 , Kokil Jaidka2,3 , Lyle Ungar4 , and Atanu Sinha1
1
Adobe Research, India
2
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
3
University of Pennsylvania, USA
nchhaya@adobe.com
Abstract. The AffCon2019, the second AAAI Workshop on Af-
fective Content Analysis @ AAAI-19 focused on the analysis of
emotions, sentiments, and attitudes in textual, visual, and multi-
modal content for applications in psychology, consumer behav-
ior, language understanding, and computer vision. It included
the inaugural CL-Aff Shared Task on modeling happiness. The
program comprised keynotes, original research presentations, a
poster session, and presentations by the Shared Task winners.
1 Introduction
The second Affective Content Analysis workshop @ AAAI-19 was aimed at
engaging the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) commu-
nity around the open problems in affective content analysis and understanding,
and succeeds the first Affective Content Analysis workshop @ AAAI-18 in New
Orleans [10]4 . Affective content analysis refers to the interdisciplinary research
space of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguists, Consumer psychology, and
HCI looking at online communication, its intentions and the reactions it evokes.
The purpose of the workshop was to bring together cross–disciplinary research
and mechanisms for affect analysis, as well as to pool together resources for fur-
ther research and development. The workshop is supported by a committee of
keen and experienced researchers in the field of AI. 5
The workshop included the first CL-Aff Shared Task on modeling happiness,
to stimulate the development of new approaches and methods for affect iden-
tification and representation. It focused on the psycholinguistic and semantic
characteristics of written accounts of happy moments. Elevent teams partici-
pated in a shared task to model and predict the agency and sociality of happy
moments in a semi-supervised set up, scalable to larger problems.
4
https://aaai.org/Library/Workshops/ws18-01.php
5
For the full Program Committee list, see https://sites.google.com/view/affcon2019/committees?authuser=0
2 Workshop Topics and Format
The workshop presentations incorporated insights from psychologists, psycholin-
guists, and computer science researchers to develop new approaches that address
open problems such as deep learning for affect analysis, leveraging traditional
affective computing (multi-modal datasets), privacy concerns in affect analysis,
and inter-relationships between various affect dimensions. These fall under the
broad topics of interest of the workshop:
– Affect and Cognitive Content Measurement in Text
– Computational models for Consumer Behavior theories
– Psycho–demographic Profiling
– Affect–based Text Generation
– Spoken and Formal Language Comparison
– Stylometrics, Typographics, and Psycho-linguistics
– Affective needs and Consumer Behavior
– Measurement and Evaluation of Affective Content
– Affective Lexica for Online Marketing Communication
– Affective human-agent, -computer, and-robot interaction
– Multi-modal emotion recognition and sentiment analysis
3 Overview of the papers
The workshop featured four keynote talks, three paper sessions, and a poster
session. 33 papers were submitted to the workshop, 11 of which were Systems
for the CL-Aff shared task. Finally, 3 papers were accepted as full papers and
4 were accepted as posters, and these will be included in the proceedings. In
addition, the winners from the CL-Aff task presented talks and posters at the
workshop. One pre-published paper was also invited for the poster session.
The following sections briefly describe the keynote and sessions.
3.1 Keynotes
The workshop had a range of keynote speakers. Dr. Ellen Riloff 6 shared her work
in the space of identifying affective events and the reasons for their polarity. She
introduced affective events as experiences that positively or negatively impact
on our lives and then discussed recent work on identifying affective events and
categorizing them based on the underlying reasons for their affective polarity.
The discussion included a description of a weakly supervised learning method
to induce a large set of affective events from a text corpus, learning models to
classify affective events based on Human Need Categories, and concluded with
a discussion on directions of future work on this topic.
Dr. Alon Halevy 7 talked about affective search. His talk was centered around
the space of positive psychology. He described two works in this space that
6
http://www.cs.utah.edu/ riloff/
7
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/ alon/
develop new AI techniques for enabling technology that help individuals increase
their well-being. The first work was based on deriving insights from user’s notes
and second one explained affective search in online ecommerce applications. His
talk gave an insight towards potential applications of affective analysis in real
world applications.
Dr. Lyle Ungar 8 talked about the use of user generated content for affect
analysis. In this talk a study for computational modeling of empathy is pre-
sented. Social media language, combined with questionnaires is used to reveals
that empathy has both ’good’ (compassionate) and ’bad’ (depleting) compo-
nents, with ’bad’ empathy associated with stress, reduced perceived control, and
reduced well-being, all of which can be measured through peoples’ social media
language. He also discussed the utility of a novel annotation methodology in
which subjects react to news stories both in free text and in multi-item ques-
tionnaire responses.
Last but not the least, Dr. Rada Mihalcea 9 discussed her work on grounded
emotions. In this talk, she discussed several types of external factors and showed
their impact and correlation with a users emotional state. Finally, she presented
a study that proved that combining all extrinsic features leads to a decent pre-
dictive model for the emotional state of a user.
3.2 Papers:
The workshop included 3 full paper presentations and 4 posters.
Kowalczyk et. al [29] presented their work on privacy aware scalable polarity
detection in Twitter. They first argue that strict alignment of data acquisition,
storage and analysis algorithms is necessary to avoid the common trade-offs be-
tween scalability, accuracy and privacy compliance. In their paper, they propose
a new framework for acquisition of large-scale datasets, high accuracy supervi-
sory signal and multilanguage sentiment prediction while respecting every pri-
vacy request applicable. Finally, a novel gradient boosting framework is proposed
to achieve stateof- the-art results in virality ranking, already before including
tweet’s visual or propagation features. An empirical analysis across 18 languages
shows the generality of this work.
Joshi et al [26] design a joint loss function to optimize the performance of
Long Short Term Memory networks for predicting the valence from audio fea-
tures in a dataset of Academy Award Movies. Drawing from psychology, they
model arousal-valence interdependence in two ways and demonstrate a remark-
able improvement in predicting valence over an independent valence model.
Qiu et al [57] work on multimodal emotion recognition with a new model
they call “Adversarial and Cooperative Correlated Domain Adaptation”. They
demonstrate higher emotion classification accuracy on datasets comprising phys-
iological signals and eye movements, by following a deep canonical correlation
analysis approach that leverages the complementarity of multimodal signals.
8
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ ungar/
9
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/ mihalcea/
Their domain adaptation approach outperforms the state of the art approaches
on the SEED IV dataset for four emotion tasks, as well as on the DEAP dataset
for two dichotomies.
3.3 Posters
The paper by Tiam-Lee and Sumi [76] provides an analysis of the emotional
experiences of students as they learn to program. They focus particularly on the
transitions across different emotions and relate facial expressions, body posture
and click logs in relation to emotional states. This preliminary study reported
subjective differences both in self-reported data and in the facial expressions au-
tomatically captured by the system, which highlights the need to design systems
and experiments that are conscious of social and cultural norms.
The paper by Luo, Xu, and Chen [35] proposes an model to mine senti-
ment information in audio. It uses multiple traditional acoustic features and
spectrum graphs, and is language insensitive as it focuses on acoustic features
rather than audio features for modeling purposes. The authors report superior
performance on the Multimodal Corpus of Sentiment Intensity dataset(MOSI)
and Multimodal Opinion Utterances Dataset(MOUD) as compared to the state
of the art.
The paper by Li, Rzepka, Ptaszynski, and Araki [31] reports on sentiment
classification on Weibo developed on the basis of a custom-made Internet slang
and emoticon lexicon derived from Weibo posts. The paper experiments with
different parametric and non-parametric approaches to show the effectiveness of
their features for capturing humor, especially on the cases which are harder to
classify as either positive or negative.
Last but not the least, Sun et. al [72] presented their pre-published work on
converting a sentiment classification problem to image classification, through a
method they call Super Characters which encodes each observation as an image,
and then applies image processing approaches for sentiment classification. Given
the pictogram nature of many widely-spoken languages, perhaps it is not surpris-
ing that Super Characters consistently outperforms other methods for sentiment
classification and topic classification on datasets in four different languages –
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; however, Super Characters also reports a good
performance on sentiment analysis on an English dataset of Amazon reviews.
3.4 CL-Aff Shared Task
Eleven teams participated in Task 1 of the inaugural CL-Aff Shared Task AAAI-
19 and out of those, five attempted Task 2. The best performing systems were
submitted by The University of British Columbia, Canada [59], Arizona State
University, USA [65], and the International Institute for Information Technology
Hyderabad, India [73]. The Shared Task details are archived on Git 10 and the
10
https://github.com/kj2013/claff-happydb
complete dataset is indexed on Harvard Dataverse 11 . Shared Task participants
showed creativity and ingenuity in modeling the problem in different vector
spaces and enriching their training data with external resources. We believe that
the widespread adoption of neural approaches for modeling Agency and Sociality
and the stupendous performance even on the modest size of the dataset, are an
indicator of the swift improvements happening in the field of deep learning for
text. In the future, we plan to release other resources complementary to the
challenges of modeling affect and emotion language from language.
4 Related Workshops
There is a growing number of workshops and conferences related to affective
computing which points to the importance of the research problem at hand,
as well as the timeliness of this workshop for the AI community. The following
workshops focused mainly on text analysis, sentiment, and subjectivity of the
text content:
– SENTIRE series: The workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text
for Information Retrieval and Extraction has been a continuing series for the
past few years at ICDM 12 . The organizers of this workshop series are part
of the program committee for the proposed workshop.
– WASSA: The workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sen-
timent & Social Media Analysis is a workshop series that concentrates on
sentiment analysis in text and looks at various aspect–based and subjectivity
analysis of text in that context. The workshop has been a popular workshop
at top NLP conferences such as EMNLP, ACL, and NAACL in recent years
13
. The organizers of this workshop series as well are a part of the program
committee of this proposed workshop.
The following workshops focused on the multi-modal, sensory data in their anal-
ysis. Text and language analysis is however not the focus of these workshops.
This makes the AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis rather unique in
its pitch to bring the two communities together.
– The first workshop on Affective Computing (IJCAI 2017) concentrates on
measuring human affects based on sensors and wearable devices.
– 1st Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Mental Health and Wellbeing,
Pain, and Distress (MHWPD)
– Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MEC 2017) @ 2018 Asian Con-
ference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (AACII)
Other current relevant events include ACII14 , HUMANAIZE15 , and NLP+CSS16 .
11
DOI:10.7910/DVN/JZAS66; https://goo.gl/3rcZqf
12
http://sentic.net/sentire/
13
http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2017/
14
http://acii2017.org/
15
http://st.sigchi.org/publications/toc/humanize-2017.html
16
https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/nlp-css-at-acl-2017
5 Outlook
This workshop received a promising number of submissions and generated a lot
of interest from scholars and industry. The response to the Shared Task was also
successful at identifying a community of researchers and a variety of resources
for affect analysis in text. The program comprising interdisciplinary keynotes,
original research presentations, a poster session and a Shared Task has proven
to be a successful and agile format. We will continue this multi–disciplinary
workshop in an attempt to establish the space of computational approaches for
affective content analysis.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Adobe Research for their generous funding which made
this workshop possible. We thank our program committee members who did an
excellent job of reviewing the submissions. All PC members are documented on
the AffCon-19 website17 .
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