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布占廷 | 1 Dec 2010 06:46
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negative evaluation in book reviews

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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Albretch Mueller | 1 Dec 2010 12:39
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Re: Query-By-Example (QBE) -like GUI to query corpora ...

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:24 PM, John F. Sowa <sowa <at> bestweb.net> wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 9:04 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>> The point I make in this paper is that logic and ontology are both
>>> abstractions *from*  language --*not*  the foundations for language.
>>
>> Exactly!!! I would just change the wildly overused and overrated word
>> "abstractions" for -generalizations- and I explain in that draft of
>> my paper how it happens. There is absolutely nothing "abstract" our
>> semiosis/communication
>
> We largely agree.  The disagreement arises from two polysemous words:
> 'generalization' and 'abstraction".
~
 Yeah, polysemous words! ;-)
~
> I used the word 'generalization'
> in the sense that X is a generalization of Y iff every Y is an X.
~
 I don't use it in a formalized logical sense, but more like in the
philosophical one I learned (and greatly revised/expanded/critically
enriched in a semiotics sense) from from this largely underrated
philosopher:
~
 marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/essays/essay11.htm
~
>>>> Take, say, all current pop culture songs and do all the parsing and
>>>> annotating you want and then tell me what is the content/lyrics/melody
>>>> of the next hit
>>>
>>> No human being on earth can do that.  It should not be a criterion for an
>>> intelligent system.
>>
>> Actually this "we" (socially, culturally meant) do all the time,
>> e.g., when one authors anything...
>
> No author has been able to do that.  That ability would be worth
> billions in the entertainment industry.
~
 Well, actually; I think I wasn't clear here. I did not mean to say
that authors (in the music industry or of any other kinds) have some
kind of oracle or crystal ball to determine what is going to gain in
currency in the future, but that authors actually by selflessly and
mindfully immersing themselves in the complex, antagonistic
interactions of their particular zeitgeist, become themselves mediums
as part of those "oracles" that -semantically- enrich our reality
~
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Matteo Fuoli | 1 Dec 2010 13:32
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Re: negative evaluation in book reviews

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

- Using Appraisal for Sentiment Analysis


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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Janne Bondi Johannessen | 1 Dec 2010 14:14
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Re: Frequency of pepositions

You could read the book The Authorship of The Quiet Don (1984) by the
late Professor Geir Kjetsaa. His team used statistical methods
(basically counting various items) to show that Mikhail Sholokhov was
indeed the author of the book And Quiet Flows the Don.
Janne

2010/11/30 Yuri Tambovtsev <yutamb <at> mail.ru>
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> Dear colleahues, usually it is possible to find out if two texts are different if some certain linguistic
units are used there with different frequencies. Is it possible to differentiate two texts basing on the
frequency of occurrence of preposions: on, in, at, under, over, etc. Has many articles been published on
the use of prepositions as features? Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb <at> mail.ru  Yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia
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John F. Sowa | 1 Dec 2010 16:54

Re: Query-By-Example (QBE) -like GUI to query corpora ...

On 12/1/2010 6:39 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> ... authors actually by selflessly and
> mindfully immersing themselves in the complex, antagonistic
> interactions of their particular zeitgeist, become themselves mediums
> as part of those "oracles" that -semantically- enrich our reality

On that point, I completely agree.

But I would generalize the word 'author' to include any speaker
or writer of any natural language.  All applications of language
to new situations (and most situations are new in some respect)
"semantically enrich our reality."

And I regard the work on corpora as contributions to collecting,
organizing, and finding new ways to process the records of those
semantic enrichments.

John

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Lars Borin | 1 Dec 2010 18:07
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Re: Frequency of pepositions

Hi Yuri,

In our lab we have been working on a project classifying 19th century novels based on their novelistic genre (e.g. Gothic, Bildungsroman, Industrial, etc).   We will be posting the resulting paper to our site (http://litlab.stanford.edu/) within the next couple of weeks under the title: “Quantitative Formalism: an Experiment in Genre Classification.”  

Among other things, we have found and discuss how prepositions, in particular, are useful in the classification of novelistic genres.  We suspect that this is because novelistic genres are often defined in relation to "place" and prepositions, especially locative prepositions are place-oriented.  Until the paper is published and posted to our web site, here are a few other sources that you might have a look at:

Grieve, J. (2007). Quantitative Authorship Attribution: An Evaluation of Techniques. Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 22 (3):251-270.

Garcia, M., and C. Martin. (2007). Function Words in Authorship Attribution Studies. Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 22 (1):49-66.

Hoover, D. L. (2001). Statistical Stylistics and Authorship Attribution: An Empirical Investigation. Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 16 (4):421-444.

Yang, Y., and J. Pedersen. (1997).  A Comparative Study on Feature Selection in Text Categorization.  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ’97), 8–12 July, at Nashville, Tennessee: 412–20.

Zhao, Y., and J. Zobel. (2005). Effective and Scalable Authorship Attribution Using Function Words. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer.


On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:

Dear colleahues, usually it is possible to find out if two texts are different if some certain linguistic units are used there with different frequencies. Is it possible to differentiate two texts basing on the frequency of occurrence of preposions: on, in, at, under, over, etc. Has many articles been published on the use of prepositions as features? Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb <at> mail.ru  Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Albretch Mueller | 1 Dec 2010 23:39
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Re: Query-By-Example (QBE) -like GUI to query corpora ...

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John F. Sowa <sowa <at> bestweb.net> wrote:
> On 12/1/2010 6:39 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>>
>> ... authors actually by selflessly and
>> mindfully immersing themselves in the complex, antagonistic
>> interactions of their particular zeitgeist, become themselves mediums
>> as part of those "oracles" that -semantically- enrich our reality
>
> On that point, I completely agree.
>
> But I would generalize the word 'author' to include any speaker
> or writer of any natural language.  All applications of language
> to new situations (and most situations are new in some respect)
> "semantically enrich our reality."
>
> And I regard the work on corpora as contributions to collecting,
> organizing, and finding new ways to process the records of those
> semantic enrichments.
>
> John
~
 Well, I guess we would differ on more than polysemy/terminology on that count.
~
 I think there definitely is such a difference between what I call
"authoring" and "actualizing" both in semantic and syntactic senses
that it would call of some terminological commitments
~
 Max Planck authored (discovered/proved) through black-body radiation
experiments the essential physical relationship between the thermo-,
electro- magnetic and quantum nature of radiation. His professors
Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff and the mathematician Karl
Weierstrass contributed to/participated on that authoring as well, but
they were not the ones that formulated that relationship in a
magically simple formula (from which Einsteins mass-Energy
relationship can be deduced using de Broglie's wave-quanta
relationship). Now, when we device say microwaves using that very
principle we are not authoring, but -actualizing-  it. Along the same
lines Tchaikovsky actually authored the Sugar plum fairy of the
Nutcracker (by contract!)
~
// __ Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite - 3 'Sugar Plum Fairy' * Volker
Hartung & Cologne New Philharmonic
~
 youtube.com/watch?v=Ow4t3C_gCCY
~
 Sverre Indris Joner arrangement (the piano player) is a great
-actualization- of it
~
// __ Sugarplum Fairy from Nutcracker as salsa
~
 youtube.com/watch?v=GcC_F3f3JPw
~
 If I am forced to briefly explain myself (ab)using known terminology
I would say that semantics (like syntax (in their broad semiotic
senses)) has a logically open, diachronic closure as well as an
interdependent iterative, internal logically circumscribed/confined
articulation which actualizations, as we communicate, we exhaust
towards relatively radical changes (in the sense that we cannot
-semantically- resolve those conflicts with the syntactic
tools/understanding we previously deviced (what Thomas Kuhn calls
"scientific revolutions", which like "discoveries" are essentially
semantic))
~
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