On Identifying Conflict Related Stances in Political Debates

Author

Allwood, Julian ; Chindamo, M. ; Ahlsen, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. IT, Univ. of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

918

Lastpage

925

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some problems in identifying stances and the features that express these stances in televised political debates where there is conflict escalation. The study is based on an analysis of video-recorded political debates in different European languages (Italian (1), German (2) and US-American English (1)) and consists of a qualitative analysis of the videos in order to understand the similarities and differences in the use of social signals for stances in conflict situations in a similar setting (televised political debate) in three western cultures.

Keywords

cultural aspects; natural languages; politics; video recording; European languages; German; Italian; US-American English; conflict escalation; conflict related stances identification; social signal differences; social signal similarities; televised political debates; video-recorded political debates; videos qualitative analysis; western cultures; Indexes; Speech; TV; Thumb; Torso; Videos; conflict; multimodal communication; political debate; stance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2012 International Conference on and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing (SocialCom)

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5638-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.90

Filename

6406346