Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement

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Abstract

In this work, we address the annotation of language resources through the application of the engagement network in appraisal theory. This work represents an attempt to extend the advances in studies of speech and dialogue acts to encompass the latest notion of stance negotiations in discourse, between the writer and other sources. This type of phenomenon has become especially salient in contemporary media communication and requires some timely research to address emergent requirement. We shall first of all describe the engagement network as proposed by Martin and White (2005) and then discuss the issue of multi-subjectivity. We shall then propose and describe a bi-step procedure towards better annotation before discussing the benefits of engagement network in the assessment of speaker-writer stance. We shall finally discuss issues of annotation consistency and reliability. © 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19)
EditorsHarry Bunt
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages18-26
ISBN (Print)9781959429661
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19) - University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
Duration: 20 Jun 202320 Jun 2023
Conference number: 19
https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/
https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.isa-1/

Publication series

NameISA Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19)
Abbreviated titleISA
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNancy
Period20/06/2320/06/23
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Research Keywords

  • annotation consistency
  • multi-subjectivity
  • engagement
  • appraisal theory
  • media discourse

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