Get out the vote
Published 1 January 2006Open access
Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee
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It is found that the incorporation of sources of information regarding relationships between discourse segments, such as whether a given utterance indicates agreement with the opinion expressed by another, yields substantial improvements over classifying speeches in isolation.
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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 utterance indicates agreement with the opinion expressed by another. We find that the incorporation of such information yields substantial improvements over classifying speeches in isolation.
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