A Fine-Grained Multilingual Analysis Based on the Appraisal Theory: Application to Arabic and English Videos

Karima Abidi, Dominique Fohr, Denis Jouvet, David Langlois, Odile Mella, Kamel Smaïli

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to compare the opinions of two videos in two different languages. To do so, a fine-grained approach inspired from the appraisal theory is used to analyze the content of the videos that concern the same topic. In general, the methods devoted to sentiment analysis concern the study of the polarity of a text or an utterance. The appraisal approach goes further than the basic polarity sentiments and consider more detailed sentiments by covering additional attributes of opinions such as: Attitude, Graduation and Engagement.