Title
A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign.
Abstract
Readability is defined as the reading level of the speech from grade 1 to grade 12. It results from the use of the REAP readability analysis (vocabulary - Collins-Thompson and Callan, 2004; syntax - Heilman et al ,2006, 2007), which use the lexical contents and grammatical structure of the sentences in a document to predict the reading level. After analysis, results were grouped into the average readability of each candidate, the evolution of the candidateu0027s speechesu0027 readability over time and the standard deviation, or how much each candidate varied their speech from one venue to another. For comparison, one speech from four past presidents and the Gettysburg Address were also analyzed.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Computation and Language
Presidential system,Computer science,Readability,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Linguistics,Vocabulary,Syntax
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1603.05739
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elliot Schumacher121.72
Maxine Eskenazi2979127.53