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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…
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…
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.…
Evaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs
Iman Munire Bilal, Bo Wang, Maria Liakata +2
Collecting together microblogs representing opinions about the same topics within the same timeframe is useful to a number of different tasks and practitioners. A major question is…
A Query-Driven Topic Model
Zheng Fang, Yulan He, Rob Procter
Topic modeling is an unsupervised method for revealing the hidden semantic structure of a corpus. It has been increasingly widely adopted as a tool in the social sciences, includin…
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,…