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Speaker:
Chris Reed

This event is part of an event series „Cluster Colloquium “The Politics of Inequality”“.

Chris Reed (Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee):

"Contours of Dialogue: The Role of Technology in Uncovering Inequalities in Discourse"

Abstract:
The establishment and growth of computational models of argument over the past 25 years has been a uniquely fruitful collaboration crossing disciplinary boundaries from humanities, through social and computational sciences, to engineering. More recently, the automatic identification of reasoning — argument mining — has enjoyed phenomenal success, exploding from nothing to a worldwide industry in barely half a decade. Ingenious theoretical creativity and ground-breaking innovative collaborations are starting to demonstrate the potential of the techniques in areas as diverse as couples’ mediation, intelligence analysis and deliberative democracy. Across all of these domains, however, a key challenge is to understand and monitor the ways in which different participants are respected, valued and empowered. The same AI techniques that offer us insight into the structure of discourse may also hold the answer to modelling and understanding equality in discourse.

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