[Corpora-List] negative evaluation in book reviews

[Matteo Fuoli]

Hello Harrybu,

I've worked on Appraisal in multinational corporations' Sustainability
Reports for my Masters' thesis.
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.

- Hunston, S. (2004). Counting the uncountable: problems of
identifying evaluation
in a text and in a corpus. In Partington, M. and Haarman, L. (eds.), Corpora
and Discourse. Peter Lang, 157-188.

- Kaltenbacher, M. 2006. ''Culture related linguistic differences in tourist
websites: the emotive and the factual. A corpus analysis within the
framework of Appraisal". In: Thompson, G. & S. Hunston (eds). System and
Corpus. Exploring Connections. London: Equinox: 269-292.

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.

- Analyzing Appraisal
Automatically<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>

- Using Appraisal for Sentiment
Analysis<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>

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Matteo

2010/12/1 布占廷 <harrybu at 163.com>

> Dear all,
> i am working on my phd programme.
> i am planning to investigate negative evaluation/appraisal in Chinese and
> english book reviews.
> surely it is a contrastive one.
> i have several questions
>
> 1. is it too limited if i confine the investigated area to linguistics?
> 2. are there any available academic book review corpus free for use?
> 3. is it possbile to find a way to identify negative evaluation
> automatically
>
> These questions may sound silly,
> but i do appreciate those who can give me a clue to theese question and the
> topic on the whole.
>
> Thanks.
> Harrybu
>
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