4 papers
Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X
Zahra Arjmandi-Lari, Alexios Mantzarlis, Tom Stafford
Community Notes are emerging as an important option for content moderation. The Community Notes system pioneered by Twitter, now known as X, uses a bridging algorithm to identify u…
Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues
Youmna Farag, Charlotte O. Brand, Jacopo Amidei +4
Recent research on argumentative dialogues has focused on persuading people to take some action, changing their stance on the topic of discussion, or winning debates. In this work,…
How to disagree well: Investigating the dispute tactics used on Wikipedia
Christine de Kock, Tom Stafford, Andreas Vlachos
Disagreements are frequently studied from the perspective of either detecting toxicity or analysing argument structure. We propose a framework of dispute tactics that unifies these…
What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations
Georgi Karadzhov, Tom Stafford, Andreas Vlachos
People leverage group discussions to collaborate in order to solve complex tasks, e.g. in project meetings or hiring panels. By doing so, they engage in a variety of conversational…