A Semantic Look at the Presidential Debates
Warning: For entertainment purposes only.*
Angela Guess reports:
Luca Scagliarini of Expert System reports, “This week’s presidential debate is being analyzed across the web on a number of fronts, from a factual analysis of what was said, to the number of tweets it prompted. Instead, we used our Cogito semantic engine to analyze the transcript of the debate through a semantic and linguistic lens. Cogito extracted the responses by question, breaking sentences down to their granular detail. This analysis allows us to look at the individual language elements to better understand what was said, as well as how the combined effect of word choice, sentence structure and sentence length might be interpreted by the audience.”
The full post: Presidential Debates 2012: Semantically speaking
*I don’t doubt the performance of the Cogito engine, just the semantics, if any, of the target content. 😉