Observed arrival · 2026-09-29
RhetoricMap makes debate transcripts legible, sentence by sentence
A free, in-browser analyzer labels transcript sentences as attacks, policy arguments, both, or neither, and shows the cues behind each label.
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- Debate researchers, students, and transcript analysts
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- Its name-matching cue accepts user-supplied opponent names and suppresses a match when the name appears in the speaker’s own name.
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The analyzer expects speaker names at the start of transcript lines and offers a field for comma-separated opponent names. Its page says the classifier scores sentences against visible cues, with user-entered names added at runtime; it also describes escaping metacharacters and sorting names longest-first. Rather than forcing every sentence into an attack or policy category, it retains both-at-once and neither labels for mixed or procedural remarks.
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