Stance in News Broadcasts

Publications

• Inferring Stance from Prosody, Ward, et al., Interspeech 2017

Data

• English Annotations: as one excel file, as per-broadcast csv files, cleaned, April 2016 (includes listing of audio files) ; also available are Transcripts: from CMU, and from BUT.
• Mandarin Annotations: tarfile containing both xlsx and csv versions, for the Hub4-ne Mandarin data
• Turkish Annotations: TUR_SA_FINAL_20161213.7z

Code etc.

• The Midlevel Prosodic Features Toolkit (code for prosodic features for machine-learning applications
• Stance Code
  • UTEP Prosody-Based Property Inference Package (ProsProp)
  • Old Version: stance-code-feb2017.tgz and patch and a big file
• Prosodic Feature Sets
  • utep-m1 (also known as mono.fss and mono1), as used in the experiments reported in Inferring Stance from Prosody
  • utep-m4 (also known as mono4.fss)

Documentation

• Technical Report: Preliminaries to a Study of Stance in News Broadcasts, Sep 19, 2016.
• Stance Annotation Items, v6, Mar 2, 2016.
• Stance Annotators Manual, v3, Mar 2, 2016.
• Stance Annotation Procedure, Mar 2, 2016.
• Use-Case Scenarios, August 6, 2016
• Full packet of documents for the End-User Studies, sample, Sept 21, 2016. Supersedes the above three.

Slides

• Powerpoint: For Nashua