Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksProceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Herausgeber/-innenDan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
Seiten3154-3160
Seitenumfang7
ISBN (elektronisch)9781952148255
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juli 2020
Extern publiziertJa
VeranstaltungThe 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Online, Keine Angaben
Dauer: 5 Juli 202010 Juli 2020

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NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

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News editorials argue about political issues in order to challenge or reinforce the stance of readers with different ideologies. Previous research has investigated such persuasive effects for argumentative content. In contrast, this paper studies how important the style of news editorials is to achieve persuasion. To this end, we first compare content- and style-oriented classifiers on editorials from the liberal NYTimes with ideology-specific effect annotations. We find that conservative readers are resistant to NYTimes style, but on liberals, style even has more impact than content. Focusing on liberals, we then cluster the leads, bodies, and endings of editorials, in order to learn about writing style patterns of effective argumentation.

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Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation. / El Baff, Roxanne; Wachsmuth, Henning; Al-Khatib, Khalid et al.
Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Hrsg. / Dan Jurafsky; Joyce Chai; Natalie Schluter; Joel Tetreault. 2020. S. 3154-3160 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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El Baff, R, Wachsmuth, H, Al-Khatib, K & Stein, B 2020, Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation. in D Jurafsky, J Chai, N Schluter & J Tetreault (Hrsg.), Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, S. 3154-3160, The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, Keine Angaben, 5 Juli 2020. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.287
El Baff, R., Wachsmuth, H., Al-Khatib, K., & Stein, B. (2020). Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation. In D. Jurafsky, J. Chai, N. Schluter, & J. Tetreault (Hrsg.), Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (S. 3154-3160). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.287
El Baff R, Wachsmuth H, Al-Khatib K, Stein B. Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation. in Jurafsky D, Chai J, Schluter N, Tetreault J, Hrsg., Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020. S. 3154-3160. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.287
El Baff, Roxanne ; Wachsmuth, Henning ; Al-Khatib, Khalid et al. / Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation. Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Hrsg. / Dan Jurafsky ; Joyce Chai ; Natalie Schluter ; Joel Tetreault. 2020. S. 3154-3160 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
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