CONF Vinciarelli_ACII_2009/IDIAP Canal9: A database of political debates for analysis of social interactions Vinciarelli, Alessandro Dielmann, Alfred Favre, Sarah Salamin, Hugues EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2009/Vinciarelli_ACII_2009.pdf PUBLIC Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (IEEE International Workshop on Social Signal Processing) Amsterdam, Netherlands 2009 September 2009 1-4 978-1-4244-4800-5 Publication Date: 10-12 Sept. 2009 10.1109/ACII.2009.5349466 doi Automatic analysis of social interactions attracts major attention in the computing community, but relatively few benchmarks are available to researchers active in the domain. This paper presents a new, publicly available, corpus of political debates including not only raw data, but a rich set of socially relevant annotations such as turn-taking (who speaks when and how much,',','), agreement and disagreement between participants, and role played by people involved in each debate. The collection includes 70 debates for a total of 43 hours and 10 minutes of material.