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Wang, Haitao and
Bunt, Harry and
Cao, Xinyu and
Dong, Min and
Hao, Tianyong and
Lee, Kiyong and
Pustejovsky, James and
Romary, Laurent and
Zong, Jianfang and
Rey, Fran{\c{c}}ois Claude and
Cardey, Sylviane and
Jia, Yangli and
Liao, Shengqing and
Fang, Alex Chengyu",
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address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
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pages = "134--143",
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%T From Categories to Decisions: A Framework for Attitudinal Analysis of Evaluative Language
%A Zeng, Jiamei
%A Wang, Haitao
%A Bunt, Harry
%A Cao, Xinyu
%A Dong, Min
%A Hao, Tianyong
%A Lee, Kiyong
%A Pustejovsky, James
%A Romary, Laurent
%A Zong, Jianfang
%A Rey, François Claude
%A Cardey, Sylviane
%A Jia, Yangli
%A Liao, Shengqing
%A Fang, Alex Chengyu
%Y Bunt, Harry
%S Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.isa-1.14/
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%P 134-143
Markdown (Informal)
[From Categories to Decisions: A Framework for Attitudinal Analysis of Evaluative Language](https://aclanthology.org/2026.isa-1.14/) (Zeng et al., ISA 2026)
ACL
- Jiamei Zeng, Haitao Wang, Harry Bunt, Xinyu Cao, Min Dong, Tianyong Hao, Kiyong Lee, James Pustejovsky, Laurent Romary, Jianfang Zong, François Claude Rey, Sylviane Cardey, Yangli Jia, Shengqing Liao, and Alex Chengyu Fang. 2026. From Categories to Decisions: A Framework for Attitudinal Analysis of Evaluative Language. In Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026, pages 134–143, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).