In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We then examine these party classifiers’ person-dependency and time-dependency. We found that party classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches can be generalized to the Senate speeches of the same year, but not vice versa. The classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches performed better on Senate speeches ...

Speeches delivered in the Conference of Parties (COPs) to Convention on Biological Diversity represent leading discourses about biodiversity conservation. The discourse shared by high-level politicians is especially influential financing and decision-making process global governance. However, speeches given COPs have not been subject systematic analyses until now. This study analyzes host count...

Software Process Workshop (SPW 2005) was held in Beijing on May 25-27, 2005. This paper introduces the motivation of organizing such a workshop, as well as its theme and paper gathering and review; and summarizes the main content and insights of 11 keynote speeches, 30 regular papers in five sessions of “Process Content”, “Process Tools and Metrics”, “Process Management”, “Process Representatio...

An increasing number of studies in political communication focus on the “sentiment” or “tone” of news content, political speeches, or advertisements. This growing interest in measuring sentiment coincides with a dramatic increase in the volume of digitized information. Computer automation has a great deal of potential in this new media environment. The objective here is to outline and validate ...

The present paper investigates linguostylistic features peculiar to celebrities’ award receiving speeches - a public discourse variety of modern English which is popular not only for its social importance but also linguistic and stylistic significance. results the analyses carried out on basis case study methodology show that emotional colouring expressiveness are most typical characteristics a...