Staying on topic: An indicator of power in political debates

EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1481-1486

  Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar ^a   Arora, Ashima ^a   Rambow, Owen ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION CAMPAIGN; POLITICAL DEBATES; RELATIVE RANKINGS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84926050360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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