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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…