Identification of action items in meeting recordings can provide immediate access to salient information in a medium notoriously difficult to search and summarize. To this end, we use a maximum entropy model to automatically detect action itemrelated utterances from multi-party audio meeting recordings. We compare the effect of lexical, temporal, syntactic, semantic, and prosodic features on sy...

After the 2017 election, radical right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) became Bundestag’s third-largest party. While rise of AfD drew scholarly interest, most publications analyzing its evolution were published during a period when party was undergoing transition, euro-crisis had decreased in prominence, and going through an inner conflict between liberals radicals. This article seeks to prov...

Under what conditions are political parties, ethnic, non-ethnic or multi-ethnic, able to incorporate elites from rising ethnic categories and retain their allegiance? General theories of party politics in multi-ethnic societies propose a sociological answer to this question, according to which success or failure in elite incorporation is determined by the pattern of conflict or harmony between ...