CORPS: A corpus of tagged political speeches for persuasive communication processing

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-32

  Guerini, Marco ^a   Strapparava, Carlo ^a   Stock, Oliviero ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpora collection; Natural language processing; Persuasion; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950778142     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802149616     Document Type: Article

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