@inproceedings{janssoone-etal-2020-potus,
title = "The {POTUS} Corpus, a Database of Weekly Addresses for the Study of Stance in Politics and Virtual Agents",
author = {Janssoone, Thomas and
Bailly, K{\'e}vin and
Richard, Ga{\"e}l and
Clavel, Chlo{\'e}},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.lrec-1.193/",
pages = "1546--1553",
language = "eng",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
abstract = "One of the main challenges in the field of Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is to generate socially believable agents. The common strategy for agent behaviour synthesis is to rely on dedicated corpus analysis. Such a corpus is composed of multimedia files of socio-emotional behaviors which have been annotated by external observers. The underlying idea is to identify interaction information for the agent`s socio-emotional behavior by checking whether the intended socio-emotional behavior is actually perceived by humans. Then, the annotations can be used as learning classes for machine learning algorithms applied to the social signals. This paper introduces the POTUS Corpus composed of high-quality audio-video files of political addresses to the American people. Two protagonists are present in this database. First, it includes speeches of former president Barack Obama to the American people. Secondly, it provides videos of these same speeches given by a virtual agent named Rodrigue. The ECA reproduces the original address as closely as possible using social signals automatically extracted from the original one. Both are annotated for social attitudes, providing information about the stance observed in each file. It also provides the social signals automatically extracted from Obama`s addresses used to generate Rodrigue`s ones."
}
Markdown (Informal)
[The POTUS Corpus, a Database of Weekly Addresses for the Study of Stance in Politics and Virtual Agents](https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.lrec-1.193/) (Janssoone et al., LREC 2020)
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