no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Annette Hautli-Janisz, Zlata Kikteva, Wassiliki Siskou, Kamila Gorska, Ray Becker, Chris Reed
Broadcast political debate is a core pillar of democracy: it is the public’s easiest access to opinions that shape policies and enables the general public to make informed choices.
no code implementations • COLING (CODI, CRAC) 2022 • Zlata Kikteva, Kamila Gorska, Wassiliki Siskou, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Chris Reed
Building on the recent results of a study into the roles that are played by questions in argumentative dialogue (Hautli-Janisz et al., 2022a), we expand the analysis to investigate a newly released corpus that constitutes the largest extant corpus of closely annotated debate.
no code implementations • LaTeCHCLfL (COLING) 2022 • Wassiliki Siskou, Clara Giralt Mirón, Sarah Molina-Raith, Miriam Butt
While previous research has primarily looked at how calls-to-action (CTAs) were used in Twitter messages from non-profit organizations and protest mobilization, we are interested in identifying the linguistic cues used in CTAs found on Facebook and Twitter for an automatic identification of CTAs.