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Argumentative discourse contains not only language expressing claims and evidence, but also language used to organize these claims and pieces of evidence. Differentiating be- tween the two may be useful …...

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 …...

AbstractWe introduce Sprite, a family of topic models that incorporates structure into model priors as a function of underlying components. The structured priors can be constrained to model topic hierarchies, …...

AbstractWe propose a multi-task deep-learning approach for estimating the check-worthiness of claims in political debates. Given a political debate, such as the 2016 US Presidential and Vice-Presidential ones, the task …...

AbstractUnderstanding the structures of political debates (which actors make what claims) is essential for understanding democratic political decision making. The vision of computational construction of such discourse networks from newspaper …...