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most citedCitizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy

91 citations · 252 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2024

Machine Learning Information Retrieval and Summarisation to Support Systematic Review on Outcomes Based Contracting

Iman Munire Bilal, Zheng Fang, Miguel Arana-Catania +6

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study t…

cs.CL2024

SyROCCo: Enhancing Systematic Reviews using Machine Learning

Zheng Fang, Miguel Arana-Catania, Felix-Anselm van Lier +5

The sheer number of research outputs published every year makes systematic reviewing increasingly time- and resource-intensive. This paper explores the use of machine learning tech…

cs.CL2023

PANACEA: An Automated Misinformation Detection System on COVID-19

Runcong Zhao, Miguel Arana-Catania, Lixing Zhu +6

In this demo, we introduce a web-based misinformation detection system PANACEA on COVID-19 related claims, which has two modules, fact-checking and rumour detection. Our fact-check…

cs.CY2022

Embedding digital participatory budgeting within local government: motivations, strategies and barriers faced

Jonathan Davies, Miguel Arana-Catania, Rob Procter

The challenging task of embedding innovative participatory processes and technologies within local government often falls upon local council officers. Using qualitative data collec…

cs.CL2022

PHEMEPlus: Enriching Social Media Rumour Verification with External Evidence

John Dougrez-Lewis, Elena Kochkina, M. Arana-Catania +2

Work on social media rumour verification utilises signals from posts, their propagation and users involved. Other lines of work target identifying and fact-checking claims based on…

cs.CL2022

Supporting peace negotiations in the Yemen war through machine learning

M. Arana-Catania, F. A. Van Lier, Rob Procter

Today's conflicts are becoming increasingly complex, fluid and fragmented, often involving a host of national and international actors with multiple and often divergent interests.…

cs.CL2022

Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims

M. Arana-Catania, Elena Kochkina, Arkaitz Zubiaga +3

We present a comprehensive work on automated veracity assessment from dataset creation to developing novel methods based on Natural Language Inference (NLI), focusing on misinforma…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Evaluating the application of NLP tools in mainstream participatory budgeting processes in Scotland

Jonathan Davies, Miguel Arana-Catania, Rob Procter +2

In recent years participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland has grown from a handful of community-led processes to a movement supported by local and national government. This is epito…

cs.CL2021

Evaluation of Abstractive Summarisation Models with Machine Translation in Deliberative Processes

M. Arana-Catania, Rob Procter, Yulan He +1

We present work on summarising deliberative processes for non-English languages. Unlike commonly studied datasets, such as news articles, this deliberation dataset reflects difficu…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

A mixed-methods ethnographic approach to participatory budgeting in Scotland

Jonathan Davies, M. Arana-Catania, Rob Procter +2

Participatory budgeting (PB) is already well established in Scotland in the form of community led grant-making yet has recently transformed from a grass-roots activity to a mainstr…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Machine Learning for Mediation in Armed Conflicts

M. Arana-Catania, F. A. Van Lier, Rob Procter

Today's conflicts are becoming increasingly complex, fluid and fragmented, often involving a host of national and international actors with multiple and often divergent interests.…

cs.CL2021★ 91 cited

Citizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy

M. Arana-Catania, F. A. Van Lier, Rob Procter +4

The development of democratic systems is a crucial task as confirmed by its selection as one of the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations. In this article,…

hep-ph2014★ 35 cited

Updated Constraints on General Squark Flavor Mixing

M. Arana-Catania, S. Heinemeyer, M. J. Herrero

We explore the phenomenological implications on non-minimal flavor violating (NMFV) processes from squark flavor mixing within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We work un…

hep-ph2013★ 3 cited

The flavour of supersymmetry: Phenomenological implications of sfermion mixing

M. Arana-Catania

We study the phenomenological implications of sfermion flavour mixing in supersymmetry in the context of Non-Minimal Flavour Violation (NMFV). We study the general flavour mixing h…

hep-ph2013★ 46 cited

Non-decoupling SUSY in LFV Higgs decays: a window to new physics at the LHC

M. Arana-Catania, E. Arganda, M. J. Herrero

The recent discovery of a SM-like Higgs boson at the LHC, with a mass around 125-126 GeV, together with the absence of results in the direct searches for supersymmetry, is pushing…

hep-ph2013★ 38 cited

New Constraints on General Slepton Flavor Mixing

M. Arana-Catania, S. Heinemeyer, M. J. Herrero

We explore the phenomenological implications on charged lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes from slepton flavor mixing within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We work…

hep-ph2012★ 6 cited

The Higgs sector of the NMFV MSSM at the ILC

M. Arana-Catania, S. Heinemeyer, M. J. Herrero +1

We calculate the one-loop corrections to the Higgs boson masses within the context of the MSSM with Non-Minimal Flavor Violation in the squark sector. We take into account all the…

hep-ph2011★ 24 cited

Higgs Boson masses and B-Physics Constraints in Non-Minimal Flavor Violating SUSY scenarios

M. Arana-Catania, S. Heinemeyer, M. J. Herrero +1

We present one-loop corrections to the Higgs boson masses in the MSSM with Non-Minimal Flavor Violation. The flavor violation is generated from the hypothesis of general flavor mix…