[Corpora-List] International Workshop "Political Speech" - Rome 10-12 November 2010

[Marco Guerini]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

POLITICAL SPEECH – IL PARLATO POLITICO

Università Roma Tre
Aula Magna
Via Ostiense 161 – Roma

November 10th  – 12th, 2010

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Ever since classical oratory studies, epideictic and judicial rhetoric
have been distinguished from deliberative rhetoric, which includes
political discourse. And in all these genres, Cicero and Quintilianus
credit high relevance to actio, i.e., all the aspects of discourse
performance, in which the Orator must care not only words, but
intonation, gesture, facial expression, body movements, so as to be
more effective in persuasion.
In the last years, the body has been considered more and more
important in political communication, also for the omnipresence of
political news and political talk shows in media. Moreover, the body
aspects of persuasive communication have gained new concern in the
research areas of Persuasive Agents and Social Signal Processing.
This workshop aims at investigating “political speech”: the
monological and dialogical forms where political persuasion is
attained through face to face or media communication, making use of
the whole repertoire of body communication: words, prosody, gesture,
gaze, face, posture, proxemics. The target research questions are the
following:

- Are there body signals typical of political discourse, and more
generally signals with a specific persuasive intent or persuasive
effect?
- Are there intonational contours, or prosodic characteristics, that
are typical of argumentation?
- Do political speech and political written text differ from a
quantitative or qualitative point of view as to their use of
argumentation? And are there cognitive or strategic reasons for such
differences?
- What are the acoustic and visual signals that typically convey
emotional aspects and impression management in political speech? And
what is their role in it as opposed to other types of persuasive
discourse?
- Is charisma a possible feature of an Orator? And are there signals
of charisma in political speech?
- Within the specific aspects of face to face interaction (prosody,
intonational contours, gestures, head movements, gaze, facial
expression…) what are the differences between political speech and
other types of persuasive discourse, between discourse and debate,
between private conversation public discourse?
- In a political debate, how do turn taking, floor management,
feedback, or other aspects of conversation management bear on the
persuasive intent and persuasive effects?
- How can an automatic system recognize and interpret signals of
agreement and disagreement, dominance or reactance, persuasive intent
or deception?
- How can an Embodied Conversational Agent be more effective in
persuasion, and how can an Intelligent System unmask fallacious
argumentation or find counterarguments?

The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to:

- multimodality
- multimodal corpora
- social signal processing
- phonetics, prosody and intonation
- gesture
- discourse strategies
- argumentation and persuasion
- conversational analysis
- public speaking
- political communication
- persuasive dialogue systems
- speech analysis and synthesis
- gesture and action recognition
- applications
- Embodied Conversational Agents
- Persuasive Technology

Organizing Committee:
Isabella Poggi, Francesca D’Errico, Laura Vincze, Alessandro Vinciarelli


Important dates:
September 10th, 2010: Abstract submission  (max 1000 words). Abstract,
in a doc. file, should be sent to the following addresses:
poggi at uniroma3.it; fderrico at uniroma3.it; laura.vincze at gmail.com with
“Political Speech” in the Subject
September 30th, 2010:   	Notification of acceptance				
October 10th 2010:	   	Final Program
November 10th -12th, 2010 	International Workshop “Political Speech”

A selection of accepted papers will be published in a volume of
Post-proceedings by Springer in the LNAI series.

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