Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement

Min Dong; Alex Chengyu Fang

Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement

Min Dong
, Alex Chengyu Fang

Department of Linguistics and Translation

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19)
Editors	Harry Bunt
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	18-26
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781959429661
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19) - University of Lorraine, Nancy, France Duration: 20 Jun 2023 → 20 Jun 2023 Conference number: 19 https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/ https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.isa-1/

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

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Conference	19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19)
Abbreviated title	ISA
Place	France
City	Nancy
Period	20/06/23 → 20/06/23
Internet address	https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/ https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.isa-1/

Funding

This work is supported in part by Research Grant Nos. 7020036 and 9360115 received from City University of Hong Kong, NSSF Grant No. 22BYY009 received from the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences of China and Grant No. 18JDYYA005 received from the Municipal Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences of Beijing.

Research Keywords

annotation consistency
multi-subjectivity
engagement
appraisal theory
media discourse

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Dong, M., & Fang, A. C. (2023). Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement. In H. Bunt (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19) (pp. 18-26). (ISA Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/ISA-19-proceedings.pdf#page=29

Dong, Min ; Fang, Alex Chengyu. / Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement. Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19). editor / Harry Bunt. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. pp. 18-26 (ISA Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop).

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Dong, M & Fang, AC 2023, Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement. in H Bunt (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19). ISA Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 18-26, 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19), Nancy, France, 20/06/23. <https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/ISA-19-proceedings.pdf#page=29>

Appraisal Theory and the Annotation of Speaker-Writer Engagement. / Dong, Min; Fang, Alex Chengyu.
Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-19). ed. / Harry Bunt. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. p. 18-26 (ISA Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Proceedings of the Workshop).

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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