Appraisal Task Force Report

Appraisal of Electronic Records: A Review of the Literature in English Appraisal Task Force Prepared by Terry Eastwood, chair, Appraisal Task Force Contributors

Evaluating the Utility of Appraisal Hierarchies as a Method for Sentiment Classification

Recent studies of sentiment classification (determining whether a text is “positive” or “negative”) using Appraisal theory have provided mixed results. While some good results have been obtained, it is difficult to tell what aspects of Appraisal are particularly useful for this task. In this paper, we present a series of experiments to isolate features of Appraisal, in order to compare which pa...

Movement Disorders Society Scientific Issues Committee report: SIC Task Force appraisal of clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinsonian disorders.

As there are no biological markers for the antemortem diagnosis of degenerative parkinsonian disorders, diagnosis currently relies upon the presence and progression of clinical features and confirmation depends on neuropathology. Clinicopathologic studies have shown significant false-positive and false-negative rates for diagnosing these disorders, and misdiagnosis is especially common during t...

Appraising digital records for long-term preservation

This paper aims to extract lessons from archivists’ experience of appraising electronic records that are likely to have wider application in the preservation of other digital materials, including scientific data. It relies mainly on the work of the Appraisal Task Force of the InterPARES project on long-term preservation of authentic electronic records to develop a picture of the process of appr...

The Role of Performance in the Stress Re-appraisal Process

Chronic stress, physiological and psychological, has been strongly associated with the onset of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of research investigating the experiences of stress. A current model of the stress process includes stress appraisal, stress reactivity, and performance in stressful situations. Past research has treated performance as a dependent variable in this model, b...