Abstract
Persuasive communication is the process of shaping, reinforcing and changing others' responses. In political debates, speakers express their views towards the debated topics by choosing both the content of their discourse and the argumentation process. In this work we study the use of semantic frames for modelling argumentation in speakers' discourse. We investigate the impact of a speaker's argumentation style and their effect in influencing an audience in supporting their candidature. We model the influence index of each candidate based on their relative standings in the polls released prior to the debate and present a system which ranks speakers in terms of their relative influence using a combination of content and persuasive argumentation features. Our results show that although content alone is predictive of a speaker's influence rank, persuasive argumentation also affects such indices.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Subtitle of host publication | human language technologies |
Place of Publication | Stroudsburg, PA (US) |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 1405-1413 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-9416-4391-4 |
Publication status | Published - 17 Jul 2016 |
Event | 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 12 Jun 2016 → 17 Jun 2016 |
Conference
Conference | 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies |
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Abbreviated title | NAACL HLT 2016 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Diego, CA |
Period | 12/06/16 → 17/06/16 |