Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis

In three linesPersuasion Index (PI) is a taxonomy of 15 dimensions grounded in persuasion theories from psychology and communication. Implementation with 55 sub-features built from lexicons and rule-based detectors. Evaluation on 4 public datasets shows PI provides a shared feature space for interpreting rhetorical patterns. Lightweight linear models with interpretability. Open-source package and web interface released.

Summary generated by Claude — human-verified