Television advertising is ubiquitous with modern political campaigns in the United States. Consequently, televised advertisements have been the focal point of considerable research in political communication, psychology and behavior. Using an unprecedented collection of political ads, this project will develop:
an automated system to identify issues and other politically relevant contents from ad image, audio and text
a general workflow to create transcripts and automated summaries of political ads
a user interface that will give researchers the ability to query, view and download videos for use in classrooms and their own research
A corpus of short videos to be used for benchmarking automated video analysis
other outputs including automatically extracted features similar to those provided by existing ad collections
