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{{Event
|Acronym=WASSA 2017
|Series=WASSA
|Type=Conference
|Field=Natural language processing
|Start date=2017/09/08
|City=Copenhagen
|Country=Denmark
|has general chair=Alexandra Balahur, Saif M. Mohammad, Erik van der Goot
|has Keynote speaker=Iryna Gurevych, Aditya Joshi, Viktor Pekar
|Submitted papers=41
|Accepted papers=15
|Accepted short papers=5
}}
'''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.''
Acceptance rate	36.6 +
Accepted papers	15 +
Accepted short papers	5 +
Acronym	WASSA 2017 +
Event in series	WASSA +
Event type	Conference +
Has Keynote speaker	Iryna Gurevych +, Aditya Joshi + and Viktor Pekar +
Has coordinates	55° 41' 12", 12° 34' 12"Latitude: 55.686725 Longitude: 12.570072222222 +
Has general chair	Alexandra Balahur +, Saif M. Mohammad + and Erik van der Goot +
Has location city	Copenhagen +
Has location country	Category:Denmark +
Homepage	https://wt-public.emm4u.eu/wassa2017/ +
IsA	Event +
Start date	September 8, 2017 +
Submitted papers	41 +
Title	8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis +