4 papers
Comparing and Modeling Argumentation in German Political Communication across Arenas
Nina Vikhrova, Johannes Kühling, Sebastian Haunss +1
Deliberation, involving the formulation and exchange of arguments, forms an integral part of political decision making in democracies. Argumentation patterns however differ substan…
Take the Power Back: Screen-Based Personal Moderation Against Hate Speech on Instagram
Anna Ricarda Luther, Hendrik Heuer, Stephanie Geise +2
Hate speech remains a pressing challenge on social media, where platform moderation often fails to protect targeted users. Personal moderation tools that let users decide how conte…
Social Media for Activists: Reimagining Safety, Content Presentation, and Workflows
Anna Ricarda Luther, Hendrik Heuer, Stephanie Geise +2
Social media is central to activists, who use it internally for coordination and externally to reach supporters and the public. To date, the HCI community has not explored activist…
Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP
Sebastian Haunss, André Blessing
Annotation of political discourse is resource-intensive, but recent developments in NLP promise to automate complex annotation tasks. Fine-tuned transformer-based models outperform…