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Staying on Topic: An Indicator of Power in Political Debates

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We study the topic dynamics of interac-tions in political debates using the 2012 Republican presidential primary debates as data. We show that the tendency of candidates to shift topics changes over the course of the election campaign, and that it is correlated with their relative power. We also show that our topic shift features help predict candidates ’ relative rankings. 1

Source: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1157

Authors: Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Ashima Arora, Owen Rambow

Institution: Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Subfield: General Social Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2250222000

FWCI: 6.075

Cites: 18

Cited by: 23

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