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Towards Effective Structure-Based Assessment of Proposals and Arguments in Online Deliberation

Towards Effective Structure-Based Assessment of Proposals and Arguments in Online Deliberation

Sanja Tanasijevic, Klemens Böhm
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 24
ISSN: 1947-3052|EISSN: 1947-3060|EISBN13: 9781466691810|DOI: 10.4018/IJSSOE.2016040102
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Tanasijevic, Sanja, and Klemens Böhm. "Towards Effective Structure-Based Assessment of Proposals and Arguments in Online Deliberation." IJSSOE vol.6, no.2 2016: pp.29-52. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSOE.2016040102

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Tanasijevic, S. & Böhm, K. (2016). Towards Effective Structure-Based Assessment of Proposals and Arguments in Online Deliberation. International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), 6(2), 29-52. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSOE.2016040102

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Tanasijevic, Sanja, and Klemens Böhm. "Towards Effective Structure-Based Assessment of Proposals and Arguments in Online Deliberation," International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) 6, no.2: 29-52. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSOE.2016040102

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Abstract

Deliberation, i.e., discussing and ranking different proposals and making decisions, is an important issue for many communities, be they political, be they boards of experts for a scientific issue. Online deliberation however has issues, such as unorganized content, off-topic or repetition postings, or aggressive and conflicting behavior of participants. To address these issues, based on a relatively simple argumentation model and on feedback of different type, the authors propose to weight community members in an elaborate manner; this in turn is used to score arguments and proposals. Given such a scoring scheme, it is important to examine to which extent individuals have understood and accepted the approach, to identify characteristics of ‘good' discussants and of strong arguments and proposals, and to study the robustness of the approach with regard to minor changes. To this end, the authors have carried out an experiment with a real-world community which had to make subjective decisions on issues relevant to them, and they have analyzed the data generated by it systematically, covering the different layers of their approach. The authors' takeaway is that the approach proposed here is promising to improve deliberation in many settings.

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