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Post 2
NLP disambiguation
16-Oct-2008
This topic aroused my curiosity in my yesterday's attendance at the scientific
research methodologies class, conducted by Dr. Mundet, when he suggested that
the clear advantage of Barack Obama over John McCain for the Presidential
Election 2008 was due, in part, to the special speech techniques that Obama
uses. It's none of my business to discuss the political issues of the two
candidates, but to analyse the scientific aspect of such fact, if there is
some.
I am presently dealing with the emotion identification from text using
semantic disambiguation [Garcia and Alias, 2008], so I first thought of
NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques as tools to analyse
such special speech
techniques that Obama uses. I did some "googling" trying to relate
Obama to NLP and in fact many links were found, but none matched my
actual query. NLP referred to Neuro-linguistic Programming, an
interpersonal communication model that could be used as a manipulation
and hypnotic technique. It's far more interesting than I first
thought.
The referred article proposes a system that tags
incoming text with five different
emotions: happiness, surprise, sadness, wrath and fear. It would be
really interesting to know to what extent the discourses of Barack
Obama apply for each of these emotions.
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[Garcia and Alias, 2008] Garcia, D. and Alias, F., "Emotion
identification from text using semantic disambiguation",
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,
n. 40, (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 67-74. (in Spanish)
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