Post on 14-Feb-2017
Communication of Debate Aspects to Different Audiences
Brian PlüssKnowledge Media InstituteThe Open University, UKbrian.pluss@open.ac.uk
edv-project.netSchloss Dagstuhl, 17 December 2015
Context and Motivation
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The Election Debate Visualisation project
• Aim: to improve democratic citizenship by making political media events more accessible and engaging, and by giving viewers tools to make sense of complex political argumentation and debate.
• Political communication, computational linguistics, collective intelligence and design brought together to provide enhanced, interactive online debate replays.
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Dialogue Rule Compliance and Fair Play
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Manual Annotation of Dialogue Act Functions and
Content Features
Rules of Engagement(76 in 2010; 28 in 2015)
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Dialogue Rule Compliance and Fair Play
• Instances of violations of the rules Static: performance of forbidden dialogue acts Dynamic: failure to discharge discourse obligations
• Aggregated normalised scores per speaker
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Manual Annotation of Dialogue Act Functions and
Content Features
Rules of Engagement(76 in 2010; 28 in 2015)
edv-project.net
Dialogue Rule Compliance and Fair Play
• Instances of violations of the rules Static: performance of forbidden dialogue acts Dynamic: failure to discharge discourse obligations
• Aggregated normalised scores per speaker
Fair Play Summary
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Manual Annotation of Dialogue Act Functions and
Content Features
Rules of Engagement(76 in 2010; 28 in 2015)
edv-project.net
Dialogue Rule Compliance and Fair Play
+
Manual Annotation of Dialogue Act Functions and
Content Features
Rules of Engagement(76 in 2010; 28 in 2015)
• Instances of violations of the rules Static: performance of forbidden dialogue acts Dynamic: failure to discharge discourse obligations
• Aggregated normalised scores per speaker
Thank you!
Brian Plüss Knowledge Media InstituteThe Open University, UKbrian.pluss@open.ac.uk
edv-project.net