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The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC) is intended to be a cross disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena.
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From the October-December 2011 Issue...

Finding Mutual Benefit between Subjectivity Analysis and Information Extraction

By Janyce Wiebe, Ellen Riloff

Featured article “Subjectivity analysis” systems automatically identify and extract information relating to attitudes, opinions, and sentiments from text. As more and more people make their opinions available on the Internet and as people increasingly consult the Internet to ascertain other people's opinions about products, political issues, and so on, the demand for effective subjectivity analysis systems continues to grow. Information extraction systems, which automatically identify and extract factual information relating to events of interest, remain critically important in this day and age of increasingly vast amounts of text available online. In this work, we discover that these research areas are mutually beneficial.

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Editorials and Announcements

Editorial—Introduction to the Affect-Based Human Behavior Understanding Special Issue
Announcement—eBooks of issues of TAC can now be downloaded from the Computer Society Digital Library
Announcement—Transactions on Affective Computing 2010 Annual Index is now available. (PDF)
Editorial—Introduction to tac by J. Gratch
Editorial—Affective Computing: From Laughter to IEEE by R.W. Picard
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ethics and Affective Computing (PDF)
Announcement—Dr. Jonathan Gratch Featured in April’s Volunteer Spotlight

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