Genre stratification of the U.S. presidential speeches

A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign

Introduction The goal of this report is to assess the readability of the campaign speeches of five presidential candidates in the 2016 US presidential race and to examine their evolution over time and according to the type of speech. Readability can be defined here as the reading level, from grade 1 to grade 12, of a document. It is determined by looking at the lexical contents and the grammati...

Lexical Analysis of US Political Speeches

This article describes a US political corpus comprising 245 speeches given by senators John McCain and Barack Obama during the years 2007–2008. We present the main characteristics of this collection and compare the common English words most frequently used by these political leaders with ordinary usage (Brown corpus). We then discuss and compare certain metrics capable of extracting terms best ...

Modeling and forecasting US presidential election using learning algorithms

The primary objective of this research is to obtain an accurate forecasting model for the US presidential election. To identify a reliable model, artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR) models are compared based on some specified performance measures. Moreover, six independent variables such as GDP, unemployment rate, the president’s approval rate, and others are co...

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

Us Presidential Elections: Fixing the System

In addition to the historic events surrounding the Florida vote, the outcome of the 2000 US Presidential Election has sparked a widespread discussion of the current electoral system. This discussion is not likely to fade away with a final resolution of the election outcome. The first part of this note points to some problems surrounding the voting logistics. Problems of this type are in the cen...