Overcoming Problems in Automated Appraisal Recognition: The Attitude System in Inscribed Appraisal

Since Appraisal annotation typically requires manual annotators and is time-intensive, the amount of available Appraisal- annotated corpora is limited. While widespread success has been achieved in the area of sentiment analysis in regards to the overall semantic orientation of a text, the Attitude Appraisal subsystem is still a last stand. For this study, a basic automatic recognizer was programmed and tested in order to identify problem areas and provide clues as to their possible solutions. It deals exclusively with inscribed Appraisal and does not distinguish between authorial or non-authorial evaluation.