@inproceedings{2896383f17674be38e2878b1f936f350,
title = "Staying on topic: An indicator of power in political debates",
abstract = "We study the topic dynamics of interactions in political debates using the 2012 Republican presidential primary debates as data. We show that the tendency of candidates to shift topics changes over the course of the election campaign, and that it is correlated with their relative power. We also show that our topic shift features help predict candidates' relative rankings.",
author = "Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Ashima Arora and Owen Rambow",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Association for Computational Linguistics.; 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 ; Conference date: 25-10-2014 Through 29-10-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.3115/v1/d14-1157",
language = "English",
series = "EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "1481--1486",
booktitle = "EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference",
}