| Feature . | Description . | . |
|---|---|---|
| Elo Score | Traditional Elo score calculated and updated. Updated traditionally, not averaged as in §4.3. | n/a |
| Length | Number of words this user uttered in the debate. | ↑↑↑ |
| Part of speech | Count of each noun, verb, adjective, preposition, adverb, or pronoun from the participant in the entire debate. | Nouns (↑↑↑) Adjectives (↑↑↑) |
| Flesch reading ease | Measure of readability given the number of sentences in a document and the number of words in each sentence Kincaid et al. (1975). | ↑↑ |
| Emotional words | Cues that indicate a positive or negative emotion (Tausczik and Pennebaker, 2010). | Pos (↑↑↑) Neg (↑↑↑) |
| Links | Links to external websites outside of Debate.org. This feature operationalizes the number of sources a debater used. | |
| Questions | The number of questions the user asked in the debate. | ↓↓↓ |
| Quotations | The number of quotations the user included in the debate. | |
| Hedging | The number of phrases that soften a statement by adding uncertainty (Hyland, 1996; Hanauer et al., 2012). | |
| Fightin’ words | The number of instances of words most strongly associated with either debater (Monroe et al., 2008). | ↑↑↑ |
| H∧FW | The number of cooccurences of hedging and fightin’ words, described in §4.2. | ↑↑ |
| Feature . | Description . | . |
|---|---|---|
| Elo Score | Traditional Elo score calculated and updated. Updated traditionally, not averaged as in §4.3. | n/a |
| Length | Number of words this user uttered in the debate. | ↑↑↑ |
| Part of speech | Count of each noun, verb, adjective, preposition, adverb, or pronoun from the participant in the entire debate. | Nouns (↑↑↑) Adjectives (↑↑↑) |
| Flesch reading ease | Measure of readability given the number of sentences in a document and the number of words in each sentence Kincaid et al. (1975). | ↑↑ |
| Emotional words | Cues that indicate a positive or negative emotion (Tausczik and Pennebaker, 2010). | Pos (↑↑↑) Neg (↑↑↑) |
| Links | Links to external websites outside of Debate.org. This feature operationalizes the number of sources a debater used. | |
| Questions | The number of questions the user asked in the debate. | ↓↓↓ |
| Quotations | The number of quotations the user included in the debate. | |
| Hedging | The number of phrases that soften a statement by adding uncertainty (Hyland, 1996; Hanauer et al., 2012). | |
| Fightin’ words | The number of instances of words most strongly associated with either debater (Monroe et al., 2008). | ↑↑↑ |
| H∧FW | The number of cooccurences of hedging and fightin’ words, described in §4.2. | ↑↑ |