A new paper co-authored by GEIS’s Julia Mendelsohn — “The Persuasion Index: An Interpretable Framework for Quantifying Rhetorical Strategies Across Domains” (Gong, Wang, Xu, & Mendelsohn) — has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Burlington, VT. The framework offers a way to measure and compare persuasive rhetorical strategies across different kinds of text.
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14580
