We invite submissions to the Computational Affective Linguistics (CAL) preconference at the 2027 Annual Conference of the Society for Affective Science (SAS)! This preconference aims to bring together researchers from affective science, psychology, cognitive science, and natural language processing to explore what computational methods can teach us about emotion, and what emotion theory can teach computation.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: - Qualitative and quantitative studies of affect and emotion in natural language - Demonstrations of innovative natural language methods for affect and emotion - Data and resources for studying affect in language and communicative modalities - Downstream applications of affective computational linguistics (e.g., AI, health, education) - Ethical and philosophical implications of affective linguistic modeling
We invite novel and recent work along two main submission tracks: - Ideas: These submissions showcase a new research idea, proof-of-concept methodology, or theoretical perspectives on the computational understanding of affect and emotion. - Findings: These report new empirical resources, methods, or findings on affect and emotion resulting from a quantitative or qualitative analysis of data.
The submission can be one of two types: - Abstracts: at most 300 words - Extended abstracts: up to 2 pages. Authors will have the option to publish extended abstracts on the ACL Anthology.
Abstracts are non-archival: they can be published or presented at other conference venues.
More information, along with details of submission formatting, can be found at the CAL pre-conference website: https://casworkshop.github.io/cal-sas/about/. Email cas-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions!
For submission, visit the SAS pre-conference page: https://society-for-affective-science.org/2027-sas-annual-conference/pre-con.... To diversify content across the preconference and the main SAS conference, we ask that speakers do not submit identical material to both forums.
Submissions are due January 11, 2027, with decisions announced by January 19.
[Sent on behalf of the 2027 SAS Computational Affective Linguistics Pre-Conference Organizing Committee]