Call for Papers

We invite submissions for powerpoint and poster presentations and demo of working systems around the following themes:

      • Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language.
      • Typology of verbal aggression and related phenomenon.
      • Discursive studies of verbal aggression, impoliteness and related phenomena in language.
      • Trolling, hate speech, cyberbullying and aggression on the web.
      • Abusive language and aggression on the web.
      • Multilingualism and aggression.
      • Resource Development - Speech and Text Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for aggression detection
      • Computational Models and Methods for aggression detection in text and speech.
      • Automatic detection of aggression on the web (both text and speech).
      • Automatic detection of trolling and cyberbullying on the web (both text and speech).
      • Automatic detection of physical threat on the web (both text and speech).
      • Automatic detection of hate speech on the web (both text and speech).
      • Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges (both text and speech).