Sentiment Analysis -- A Comparison among Significance Tests and Other Feature Building Methods for Sentiment Analysis: A First Study -- BATframe: An Unsupervised Approach for Domain-sensitive Affect Detection -- Leveraging Target-oriented Information for Stance Classification -- Sentiment Polarity Classification of Figurative Language: Exploring the Role of Irony-Aware and Multifaceted Affect Features -- Sarcasm Annotation and Detection in Tweets -- Modeling the Impact of Modifiers on Emotional Statements -- CSenticNet: A Concept-Level Resource for Sentiment Analysis in Chinese Language -- Emotional Tone Detection in Arabic Tweets -- Morphology based Arabic Sentiment Analysis of Book Reviews -- Adaptation of Sentiment Analysis Techniques to Persian Language -- Verb-mediated Composition of Attitude Relations Comprising Reader and Writer Perspective -- Customer Churn Prediction using Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification of VOC.-Benchmarking Multimodal Sentiment Analysis -- Machine learning approaches for speech emotion recognition: Classic and novel advances -- Opinion Mining -- Mining Aspect-Specific Opinions from Online Reviews Using a Latent Embedding Structured Topic Model -- A comparative study of target-based and entity-based opinion extraction -- Supervised Domain Adaptation via Label Alignment for Opinion Expression Extraction -- Comment relevance classification in Facebook -- Detecting Sockpuppets in Deceptive Opinion Spam -- Author Profiling and Authorship Attribution -- Reading the Author and Speaker: Towards a Holistic and Deep Approach on Automatic Assessment of What is in One's Words -- Improving Cross-Topic Authorship Attribution: The Role of Pre-Processing -- Author Identification using Latent Dirichlet Allocation -- Personality Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks -- Character-Level Dialect Identi_cation in Arabic Using Long Short-Term Memory -- A Text Semantic Similarity Approach for Arabic Paraphrase Detection -- Social Network Analysis -- Curator: Enhancing Micro-blogs Ranking by Exploiting User's Context -- A Multi-view Clustering Model for Event Detection in Twitter -- Monitoring Geographical Entities with Temporal Awareness in Tweets -- Just the Facts: Winnowing Microblogs for Newsworthy Statements using Non-Lexical Features -- Impact Of Content Features For Automatic Online Abuse Detection -- Detecting Aggressive Behavior in Discussion Threads Using Text Mining -- Machine Translation -- Combining Machine Translation Systems with Quality Estimation -- Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation for Highly Inflected and Small Languages -- Towards Translating Mixed-Code Comments from Social Media -- Multiple System Combination for PersoArabic-Latin Transliteration -- Building a Location Dependent Dictionary for Speech Translation Systems -- Text Summarization -- Gold Standard Online Debates Summaries and First Experiments Towards Automatic Summarization of Online Debate Data -- Optimization in Extractive Summarization Processes through Automatic Classification -- Summarizing Weibo with Topics Compression -- Timeline Generation based on a Two-stage Event-time Anchoring Model -- Information Retrieval and Text Classification -- Efficient Semantic Search over Structured Web Data: A GPU Approach -- Efficient Association Rules Selection for Automatic Query Expansion -- Text-to-concept: a semantic indexing framework for Arabic News videos -- Approximating Multi-Class Text Classification via Automatic Generation of Training Examples -- Practical Applications -- Generating Appealing Brand Names -- Radiological text simplification using a general knowledge base -- Mining Supervisor Evaluation and Peer Feedback in Performance Appraisals -- Automatic Detection of Uncertain Statements in the Financial Domain -- Automatic Question Generation from Passages.