A Study of the Impact of Persuasive Argumentation in Political Debates
A Study of the Impact of Persuasive Argumentation in Political Debates
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政治辩论中说服性论证的影响研究
DOI：
10.18653/v1/n16-1166
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Yulan He
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作者：
A. Cano;Yulan He
说服性沟通是塑造、强化和改变他人反应的过程。在政治辩论中，演讲者通过选择他们的话语内容和论证过程来表达他们对辩论主题的看法。在这项工作中，我们研究了语义框架在说话者话语中建模论证的使用。我们调查了演讲者的论证风格的影响和他们在影响观众支持他们的候选人的效果。我们根据每位候选人在辩论前公布的民意调查中的相对排名，建立了他们的影响力指数模型，并提出了一个系统，该系统利用内容和有说服力的论证特征的结合，根据演讲者的相对影响力对他们进行排名。我们的研究结果表明，虽然内容本身可以预测演讲者的影响力排名，但有说服力的论证也会影响这些指数。
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.