Research Article

Anticipating Corporate Financial Performance from CEO Letters Utilizing Sentiment Analysis

Table 4

Related work of appraisal theory in sentiment analysis.

AuthorsModelsData sourceMethodAttributes typeAccuracy (percent)

Taboada and Grieve [54]Lexicon-basedReviewsTaking into account text structure and adjectives frequencyAttitudeN/A

Whitelaw et al. [55]Lexicon-basedMovie reviewsAnalyzing appraisal adjectives and modifiersAttitude, orientation, graduation, polarity90.2

Read and Carroll [56]Lexicon-basedBook reviewsMeasuring interannotator agreementAttitude, engagement, graduation, polarityN/A

Argamon et al. [57]NB, SVMDocumentsAutomatic determining complex sentiment-related attributesAttitude; orientation; forceN/A

Balahur et al. [58]Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotion; Parrot’s tree-structured list of emotionsISEAR CorpusEmotiNet (EmotiNet defines to store action chains and their corresponding emotional labels from several situations; in such a way, authors could be able to extract general patterns of appraisal)Actor, action, objectN/A
Emotion

Bloom [59]Lexicon-basedMPQA 2.0 Corpus; UIC Review Corpus; Darmstadt Service Review Corpus; JDPA Sentiment Corpus; IIT Sentiment CorpusFunctional local appraisal grammar extractorAttitude44.6

Khoo et al. [50]Lexicon-basedPolitical news articleAnalyzing appraisal groupsActor, attitude, engagement, polarityN/A

Korenek and Šimko [60]SVMMicroblog postsStructuring sentiment analysis based on appraisal theoryAttitude, graduation, polarity, orientation, engagement87.57

Cui and Shibamoto-Smith [61]Lexicon-basedSelf-constructed corpus of Chinese newspapers and websitesDiscovering the lexical, syntactic, and semantic features of different types of sentiment parametersAttitudeN/A
Peripheral sentiment parameters (topic, source, field, process, degree)