S OF IWSH 2017. ....................................................................................... 23 Abstracts of keynote speeches ....................................................................................... 24s of keynote speeches ....................................................................................... 24 Abstracts of invited speeches ..............................

Powerful speeches can captivate audiences, whereas weaker speeches fail to engage their listeners. What is happening in the brains of a captivated audience? Here, we assess audience-wide functional brain dynamics during listening to speeches of varying rhetorical quality. The speeches were given by German politicians and evaluated as rhetorically powerful or weak. Listening to each of the speec...

Now that we have covered the basics of research, organization, and how to make reasoned claims, we turn our attention to the first of three types of speeches you might find yourself delivering one day. We often equate speeches with political candidates making appeals to an audience, or perhaps a sermon on morality from a preacher, but not all speeches are designed to persuade a person. In fact,...

This paper examines and reports on how ”filled pauses” included when delivering speeches influence the understanding, and change the impression, of the speech as shown through the research and experiments we conducted on trial subjects. We conducted research about speeches and lectures given at classes at our university, and at academic meetings. A questionnaire related to filled pauses was giv...

In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We then examine these party classifiers’ person-dependency and time-dependency. We found that party classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches can be generalized to the Senate speeches of the same year, but not vice versa. The classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches performed better on Senate speeches ...

This paper introduces a typology of speeches within board game players in order to examine their communication process from the view point of pedagogical effectiveness using an environmental education game "KEEP COOL". We already have analyzed the speeches issued by players applying KJ method as basic analysis. To generalize the classification of speeches, we introduce new typology mainly focus...

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This paper describes an audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a first-of-a-kind resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technologies. We detail the process of speech recording by professional debaters, the transcription of the speeches with an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, their consequent automatic processing to produce a text ...

We investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of U.S. Congressional floor debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. To address this problem, we exploit the fact that these speeches occur as part of a discussion; this allows us to use sources of information regarding relationships between discourse segments, such as whether a given u...