Papers by Polo Chau
Examining the Ordering of Rhetorical Strategies in Persuasive Requests (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Numerous studies have been conducted to understand persuasiveness of text, from explorations of rhetoric in presidential campaigns to the impact of a communicator's likability on persuasiveness. |
| Approach: | They use a Variational Autoencoder model to disentangle content and rhetorical strategies in textual requests from a large-scale loan request corpus and visualize interplay between content and strategy through an attentional LSTM that predicts the success of textual request. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model disentangles content and rhetorical strategies in textual requests from a large-scale loan request corpus and visualizes interplay between content and strategy through attentional LSTM that predicts the success rate of textual request. |