With the increasing usage of internet, more and data is being digitized including parliamentary debates but they are in an unstructured format. There a need to convert them into structured format for linguistic analysis. Much work has been done on such as Hansard, American congressional floor-debate various aspects less pragmatics. In this paper, we provide dataset synopsis Indian perform stanc...

Speeches delivered in the Conference of Parties (COPs) to Convention on Biological Diversity represent leading discourses about biodiversity conservation. The discourse shared by high-level politicians is especially influential financing and decision-making process global governance. However, speeches given COPs have not been subject systematic analyses until now. This study analyzes host count...

Speeches given by decision makers within Central Banks are subject to frequent and careful analysis. However, a systematic process for their evaluation has remained elusive. This paper introduces a methodology for a systematic process in the form of a semantic network that can be used to augment existing approaches. The approach suggests a correlation between the new systematic method and publi...

This paper documents an ongoing effort to assess whether party group affiliation of participants in European Parliament debates can be automatically predicted on the basis of the content of their speeches, using a support vector machine multi-class model. The work represents a joint effort between researchers within Political Science and Language Technology.

In this paper, an adaptive blind dereverberation method based on speech generative model is presented. Our ICA-based speech generative model can decompose speeches into independent sources. Experimental results show that the proposed blind dereverberation model successfully performs even in non-minimum phase channels.

This paper presents resources and lexical strategies for persuasive natural language processing. After the introduction of a specifically tagged corpus of political speeches, some forms of affective language processing in persuasive communication and prospects for application scenarios are provided. In particular Valentino, a prototype for valence shifting of existing texts, is described.

AUTHOR Horn, Christy A.; And Others TITLE Effects of Cognitive Development Level on the Relationships between Self-Efficacy, Causal Attribution, and Outcome Expectancy and Performance in Reading and Writing. PUB DATE Dec 88 NOTE 10p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (38th, Tucson, AZ, November 29-December .7.! 1988). PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (...

Politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. To name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. Despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...