<font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello Harrybu,</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I've worked on Appraisal in multinational corporations' Sustainability Reports for my Masters' thesis. </span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifying
and quantifying Appraisal automatically, I've found, implies some
challenging methodological issues. You could try to have a look at these
references. They have been helpful to me.</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">- Hunston, S. (2004). Counting the uncountable: problems of identifying </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">evaluation in a text and in a corpus. In Partington, M. and Haarman, L. </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(eds.), Corpora and Discourse. Peter Lang, 157-188.</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><font size="2">- Kaltenbacher,
M. 2006. ''Culture related linguistic differences in tourist websites: the
emotive and the factual. A corpus analysis within the framework of Appraisal‟<span style="line-height: 120%;">. In:
Thompson, G. & S. Hunston (eds). </span><span style="line-height: 120%;">System
and Corpus. Exploring Connections</span><span style="line-height: 120%;">.
London: Equinox: 269-292.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><font size="2">I've
also come across a couple of studies of Appraisal in Sentiment
Analysis (freely available on the Web). Even if my background is
different they were stimulating and useful.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><font size="2">- <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.113.848%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&rct=j&q=analyzing%20appraisal%20automatically&ei=VTz2TOGaIszDswaa8rHXBA&usg=AFQjCNE0SvsM05iUhLMho3shYtXC5JMZmw&sig2=o-7cpJeLHlFvmsBT3dUFmw&cad=rja" target="_blank">Analyzing Appraisal Automatically</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><font size="2">- <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.73.524%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&rct=j&q=using%20appraisal%20groups%20for%20sentiment%20analysis&ei=Nj_2TOSrMsPFswb4rPS7BA&usg=AFQjCNFf87PVI6OTlJWt23y5Vx9LcjTnuA&sig2=owiuLFDptCIBzkDl3THUNA&cad=rja" target="_blank">Using Appraisal for Sentiment Analysis</a><br>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope this helps.</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Best regards,</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Matteo</span></font> <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/1 布占廷 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harrybu@163.com">harrybu@163.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear all, <br>i am working on my phd programme. <br>i am planning to investigate negative evaluation/appraisal in Chinese and english book reviews. <br>surely it is a contrastive one. <br>i have several questions <br><br>
1. is it too limited if i confine the investigated area to linguistics?<br>2. are there any available academic book review corpus free for use?<br>3. is it possbile to find a way to identify negative evaluation automatically<br>
<br>These questions may sound silly, <br>but i do appreciate those who can give me a clue to theese question and the topic on the whole. <br><br>Thanks. <br>Harrybu<br><font color="#888888">
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