7 papers
Toward Collective-Centric Evaluation of Preference Inference for Participatory Democracy
Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, Salim Hafid, Paul Lerner +6
To scale up collective decision-making, participatory democracy platforms such as Polis and Remesh enable online deliberation among thousands of participants. However, at this scal…
Algorithmic Approaches to Opinion Selection for Online Deliberation: A Comparative Study
Salim Hafid, Manon Berriche, Jean-Philippe Cointet
During deliberation processes, mediators and facilitators typically need to select a small and representative set of opinions later used to produce digestible reports for stakehold…
Mapping the political landscape from data traces: multidimensional opinions of users, politicians and media outlets on X
Antoine Vendeville, Jimena Royo-Letelier, Duncan Cassells +9
Studying political activity on social media often requires defining and measuring political stances of users or content. Relevant examples include the study of opinion polarization…
SPOT: An Annotated French Corpus and Benchmark for Detecting Critical Interventions in Online Conversations
Manon Berriche, Célia Nouri, Chloée Clavel +1
We introduce SPOT (Stopping Points in Online Threads), the first annotated corpus translating the sociological concept of stopping point into a reproducible NLP task. Stopping poin…
Graphically Speaking: Unmasking Abuse in Social Media with Conversation Insights
Célia Nouri, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Chloé Clavel
Detecting abusive language in social media conversations poses significant challenges, as identifying abusiveness often depends on the conversational context, characterized by the…
Expressing One's Identity Online: Left-Right and cross EU-country variation in self-representation in social media
Carlo Romano Marcello Alessandro Santagiustina, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales
We examine how social media users from eight European Union (EU) member states express their socio-political identities, focusing on users' online self-presentation and group ident…