The SAG group has contributed to Maker Faire 2015, in Rome, by supporting the Reveal team in the release of Giulia, a talking avatar. At stand J8 Giulia can talk with users about “L’eleganza del Cibo“, an exhibition, supported by the Gattinoni firm, about the Italian way to fashion and food. The exhibition is held at the Marcati di Traiano, in Rome in May-October 2015.
More details at: UniIndustria: Softlab & Reveal @ Maker Faire 2015
The paper “A Graph-based Model of Contextual Information in Sentiment Analysis over Twitter” by Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili has been accepted at the 2nd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics!
Abstract: Analyzing the sentiment expressed by short messages available in Social Media is challenging as the information when considering an instance is scarce. A fundamental role is played by Contextual information that is available when interpreting a message. In this paper, a Graph-based method is applied: a graph is built containing the contextual information needed to model complex interactions between messages. A Label Propagation algorithm is adopted to spread polarity information from known polarized nodes to the others.