BETTER-Mods - Better Informing Citizens about Current Debates

This project aims to develop and evaluate digital tools for improving the quality of online discussions about current debates (ranging from, for example, COVID-19 to Black Pete and climate change), to better inform citizens. In particular, we will (1) analyse discussions in separate domains and at several points in time, and develop computer-assisted moderation models that are optimally catered to the needs of human discussion moderators; (2) develop automatic forum summarisation techniques that can distinguish between different viewpoints and arguments put forward in a discussion; and (3) develop interactive visualisations of the generated summaries, with an overview of the topics and viewpoints, to facilitate exploration of debates.

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