ObamaSpeechesCorpus: a student project

* Sabine Bartsch * Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb * Tomasz Grubba * Nina Petrychka * David Sullivan * Christoph Tragl * Claudio Weck *

Keywords: RST, corpus annotation, corpus analysis, MMAX2, NLTK, GATE, Obama

http://www.linguisticsweb.org/doku.php?id=linguisticsweb:tutorials:linguistics_tutorials_linguistic_processing_scenarios:analysis_of_the_obama_speeches_corpus

This scenario shows the application of linguistic tools (in this case: Natural Language Toolkit [NLTK], MMAX2, and GATE) to the task of analysing political speeches by Barack Obama.

The analysis comprises established register features, discourse structure, cohesion, rhetorical structure modeled on the basis of Rhetorical Structure Theory, and thematic development.

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Resource details

Institution:	linguisticsweb.org
Year of publication:	2009
Language:	english
Type:	Scenario
Audience:	linguists
Level:	basic
Prerequisites:	none
Media:	HTML, pdf
Objective:	Show how to apply the tools to a given task
Licence:
Access:	open
Creation date:	Monday, 28 October 2013 10:30:14
Last modified:	Monday, 22 April 2024 07:16:06
BibTeX type:	@misc

BibTeX entry:

@misc(TeLeMaCo:231,
author = "Bartsch, Sabine and Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and Grubba, Tomasz and Petrychka, Nina and Sullivan, David and Tragl, Christoph and Weck, Claudio",
title = "{O}bama{S}peeches{C}orpus: a student project",
year = "2009",
url = "http://www.linguisticsweb.org/doku.php?id=linguisticsweb:tutorials:linguistics\_tutorials\_linguistic\_processing\_scenarios:analysis\_of\_the\_obama\_speeches\_corpus"
)