[Colloq] [lecturers] Reminder (TODAY): IR Seminar Talk: "Analysis of the Style and Rhetoric of American Presidents Over Two Centuries" | Speaker: Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) -

[Nada Naji]

Please come and join us in 97 Cargill! The talk starts in 12 minutes!

Best,
Nada

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Walker, Lashauna <la.walker at neu.edu> wrote:

> Title: Analysis of the Style and Rhetoric of American Presidents Over Two
> Centuries
> Speaker: Prof. Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel (Switzerland)
> Date: 4/8/16  Time: 2-3pm  Location: 97 Cargill Hall
>
>
>
> Title: Analysis of the Style and Rhetoric of American Presidents Over Two
> Centuries
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> Can natural language processing help us get an overview of a corpus of
> text?  What can we learn or what useful information can we extract from a
> set of governmental speeches?  If yes, then how?   Taking, for instance,
> the annual State of the Union (SOTU) addresses (available from 1790 to
> 2016), can we detect patterns related to the stylistic or rhetorical
> evolution given these speeches?  Can we discover similarities between
> presidents? Are these similarities reflecting their political party
> affiliation?
>
> Using simple tools, we can observe that, over time, the presidents are
> aiming to reach to a larger audience through a more familiar tone.  When
> inspecting the specific vocabulary of each president, we can automatically
> detect important issues related to each presidency (e.g., slavery with A.
> Lincoln, jobs and taxes with B. Obama).  Such an extraction technique
> allows us to summarize a presidency by one or a few sentences.  When trying
> to assign each address to its respective presidency, some speeches are
> rather challenging to classify correctly. Understanding the reasons behind
> such difficulties is more pertinent than trying to achieve a higher
> accuracy rate.
>
>
>
> Prof. Jacques Savoy is a full Professor in computer science at the
> University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.  J.  Savoy received a Ph.D.  in
> quantitative economics from  the  University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in
> 1987.   From 1987-1992 he was member of the faculty of computer science at
> the University of Montreal (Canada).  His research interests cover mainly
> natural language processing and particularly information retrieval for
> languages other than English (European, Asian, and Indian) as well as
> multilingual and cross-lingual information retrieval. For many years, he
> contributed to and participated in various evaluation campaigns such as
> TREC (Washington, DC), CLEF (Europe), NTCIR (Tokyo), and FIRE (India) which
> address these research questions.  His current research interests focus on
> statistical modeling and evaluation of natural language processing such as
> text clustering and categorization as well as authorship attribution.
> Application-wise, he is working on automatic an
>  alysis of political speeches (both governmental and electoral) with a
> particular focus on the United States.
>
>
>
> References
>
> Savoy, J.  2015.  Text Clustering: An Application with the State of the
> Union Addresses.  Journal of the
> American Society for Information Science and Technology, 66(8), 1645-1654.
>
> Savoy, J.  2015.  Vocabulary Growth Study:  An Example with the State of
> the Union Addresses.  Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 22(4), 289-310
>
> Savoy, J.  2012.  Authorship Attribution Based on Specific Vocabulary.
> ACM - Transactions on
> Information Systems, 30(2), 170-199.
>
>
> Thank You.
>
> LaShauna Walker
> Events and Administrative Specialist
> College of Computer and Information Science
> Northeastern University
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