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Weakly-supervised appraisal analysis

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:47 authored by Jonathon Lee Read, John Carroll
This article is concerned with the computational treatment of Appraisal, a Systemic Functional Linguistic theory of the types of language employed to communicate opinion in English. The theory considers aspects such as Attitude (how writers communicate their point of view), Engagement (how writers align themselves with respect to the opinions of others) and Graduation (how writers amplify or diminish their attitudes and engagements). To analyse text according to the theory we employ a weakly-supervised approach to text classification, which involves comparing the similarity of words with prototypical examples of classes. We evaluate the method's performance using a collection of book reviews annotated according to the Appraisal theory.

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  • Published

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Journal

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology

ISSN

1945-3604

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CSLI Publications

Issue

2

Volume

8

Page range

1-21

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2014-02-28

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2014-02-28

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2014-02-27

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