Illocutionary Act in Political Debate

Illocutionary Act Based Translation of Dialogues

A new dialogue translation method called the illocutionary act translation method is designed for translating speakers' intentions conveyed by rich expressions in dialogues between humans. One of the most significant characteristics of this method is that it is pragmaticsbased. That is, translation of utterances representing illocutionary acts, which consist of illocutionary forces and proposit...

A schema for illocutionary act identification with prosodic feature

We propose a new discrimination schema for illocutionary acts using prosodic features based on experimental results.We performed a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to identify the sentence type and intonation contour of given stimuli. Given the transcribed sentence with contextual information, the subjects were able to identify correctly the sentence type of 85% of 290 sentenc...

Mining Ethos in Political Debate

Despite the fact it has been recognised since Aristotle that ethos and credibility play a critical role in many types of communication, these facts are rarely studied in linguistically oriented AI which has enjoyed such success in processing complex features as sentiment, opinion, and most recently arguments. This paper shows how a text analysis pipeline of structural and statistical approaches...

Online Political Debate: Motivating Factors and Impact on Political Engagement

Online political debate is increasing in importance, both as a real world phenomenon and as an object of scientific study. We present a survey study exploring people's motivations for engaging in online political debate and how such debate may impact their general political engagement. The survey was conducted among 90 participants of an online environment for political debate hosted by one of ...

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