Systemic Functional Linguistics and Computation

Abstract

Systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) has a long history of interaction with computational linguistics, but no area stands still. In the 1980s and early 1990s, various computational systems for natural language generation informed by SFL achieved state-of-the-art performance. Subsequently, however, advances in statistically driven, rather than rule-based, computational linguistics eclipsed many of these earlier systems. In this contribution, we focus on several areas of contemporary computational applications of SFL to show how the field is now developing. We begin with a brief historical introduction to the context of this interaction, moving on with characterizations of the current state of the art and a consideration of the relationship between SFL and the statistical paradigm now central to computation and natural language processing.

Topical Theme Depicted in the Speech of Indonesian Minister of the State Secretariat

“…Other researchers are also using SFL to address the organization of informational content in culturally related practices and communications (e.g., Christina & Shasita, 2022;Ismail & Kardina, 2021;Nugraha, 2020;Nugraha & Mbato, 2022). In contrast, some researchers were looking into the organization of themes in articles that are published in the mass media and literary works (e.g., Bateman et al, 2019;Caffarel-Cayron & Rechniewski, 2014;Faradika, 2019;Skorokhod, 2016). Concerning this study, it is important to point out that comparison analyses have been done between the various research that were mentioned earlier in this paragraph.…”

Modality and Uncertainty in Data Visualizations: A Corpus Approach to the Use of Connecting Lines

“…Corpus-based studies on current digital DVs in general and particularly those focusing on single graphical elements are still rare. Possible reasons for that may be the low availability of ready-to-use corpora and that the methods for accurately and time-effectively analyse such material are still at beginning stages [13][14][15].…”

Immigration and the Context of Brexit: Collocate Network and Multidimensional Frameworks Applied to Appraisal in SFL

“…Is it possible to profile each newspaper and their texts according to the presence (or absence) of such choices? Bateman et al (2019) conduct an extensive review of the many software-driven studies in the scope of SFL. According to the authors, there has been a long tradition in computational research, especially in the use of annotated corpora.…”