The Public Discourse Corpus (PDC): A Speaker-Attributed Dataset for Valence and Epistemic Modality with Target Speaker Participation

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arXiv:2609.20232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the \textbf{Public Discourse Corpus (PDC)}, the first dataset of public-figure interview speech jointly annotated for affective valence and epistemic modality. The corpus contains 998 videos from 100 speakers across seven professional domains, yielding 186,642 sentences (3.1 million words) after sentence segmentation and filtering. To ensure that all retained videos contain analyzable speech from the intended speaker, we introduce \tex