Author(s)

Junfeng Zhang ^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹ Graduate School, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710119, China
² College of Humanities and Foreign Languages, Xi'an University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710669, China

Corresponding Author

Junfeng Zhang

ABSTRACT

Sentiment analysis has become crucial for applications such as market analysis, social media monitoring, and customer feedback evaluation. Traditional methods often overlook the nuanced ways in which language expresses sentiment, primarily focusing on basic lexical features. This paper introduces a novel sentiment analysis framework grounded in Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Appraisal Theory. SFG treats language as a social semiotic system, while Appraisal Theory highlights the linguistic resources for expressing attitudes and emotions. By integrating these theories with advanced large language models, the framework seeks to provide a more nuanced approach to sentiment analysis. The results demonstrate the framework's effectiveness in capturing complex sentiment expressions, effectively bridging the gap between linguistic theory and practical analysis. This research deepens the understanding of sentiment as a linguistic phenomenon and contributes to the development of more effective sentiment analysis tools.

KEYWORDS

Sentiment analysis, Systemic Functional Grammar, Appraisal Theory

CITE THIS PAPER

Junfeng Zhang, A Sentiment Analysis Framework Integrating Systemic Functional Grammar and Appraisal Theory. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Practice (2024) Vol. 7: 62-73. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jaip.2024.070308.

REFERENCES

[1] Liu, B. Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining [J]. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, 2012, 5(1):1-167.
[2] Pang, B., Lee, L. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis [J]. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 2008, 2(1–2):1-135.
[3] Wang, S., Zhang, X. Text Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis [J]. In Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. 
[4] Halliday, M. A. K. Things that go without saying: The Role of Grammatical Metaphor in Semantics [J]. In Thematic Structures in Discourse. London: Routledge, 1998.
[5] Zheng, Z., Zhao, Y., Li, L. Sentiment Analysis Based on Systemic Functional Grammar and Appraisal Theory [J]. Journal of Computational Linguistics, 2022, 48(4):567-589.
[6] Martin, J. R., White, P. R. R. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English [M]. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
[7] Zhou, L., Wu, J. Leveraging Appraisal Theory for Enhanced Sentiment Analysis [J]. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019.

Sponsors, Associates, and Links

---

• Power Systems Computation
  
  
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Engineering Applications
  
  
• Computing, Performance and Communication Systems
  
  
• Advances in Computer, Signals and Systems
  
  
• Journal of Network Computing and Applications
  
  
• Journal of Web Systems and Applications
  
  
• Journal of Electrotechnology, Electrical Engineering and Management
  
  
• Journal of Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks
  
  
• Journal of Image Processing Theory and Applications
  
  
• Mobile Computing and Networking
  
  
• Vehicle Power and Propulsion
  
  
• Frontiers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  
  
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Letters
  
  
• Big Data Analysis and Cloud Computing
  
  
• Electrical Insulation and Dielectrics
  
  
• Crypto and Information Security
  
  
• Journal of Neural Information Processing
  
  
• Collaborative and Social Computing
  
  
• International Journal of Network and Communication Technology
  
  
• File and Storage Technologies
  
  
• Frontiers in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
  
  
• Optical Network Design and Modeling
  
  
• Journal of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence
  
  
• Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition
  
  
• Journal of High-Voltage
  
  
• Programming Languages and Operating Systems
  
  
• Visual Communications and Image Processing
  
  
• Journal of Systems Analysis and Integration
  
  
• Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning
  
  
• Review of Information Display Techniques
  
  
• Data and Knowledge Engineering
  
  
• Journal of Database Systems
  
  
• Journal of Cluster and Grid Computing
  
  
• Cloud and Service-Oriented Computing
  
  
• Journal of Networking, Architecture and Storage
  
  
• Journal of Software Engineering and Metrics
  
  
• Visualization Techniques
  
  
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Processing
  
  
• Journal of Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
  
  
• Journal of Privacy, Trust and Security
  
  
• Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing
  
  
• Lecture Notes on Wireless Networks and Communications
  
  
• International Journal of Computer and Communications Security
  
  
• Journal of Multimedia Techniques
  
  
• Automation and Machine Learning
  
  
• Computational Linguistics Letters
  
  
• Journal of Computer Architecture and Design
  
  
• Journal of Ubiquitous and Future Networks