Factor-based summarization of reviews is useful:
I’m currently looking for a review of social media summarization. Any pointers?
Archive for the ‘argumentative discussions’ Category
Factor-based summarization
December 13th, 2011
Tags: factors, reviews, summarization
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A Review of Argumentation for the Social Semantic Web
December 6th, 2011
I’m very pleased to share our “A Review of Argumentation for the Social Semantic Web“.
You are very warmly invited to review this paper. You can post the review as a comment to the manuscript page publicly at SWJ’s website. Informal comments by email are also welcome.
Open review
I adore SWJ’s open review process: publicly available manuscripts are useful. In 11 months the landing page has had “1208 reads” and I’m sure that not all of those are mine! Further, knowing who reviewed a paper can add credibility to the process. (It means quite a lot to me when Simon Buckingham-Shum says “I anticipate that this will become a standard reference for the field.”!)
Two earlier versions
The paper evolved from my first year Ph.D. report. In the process of defining my Ph.D. topic, I reviewed the state-of-art of argumentation for the Social Semantic Web. This was further developed in conversations with my coauthors, my colleague Tudor Groza and my advisor Alexandre Passant.
The outdated first journal submission and second journal submission are available; May’s reviews refer to the first version. A cover letter responding to the reviews summarizes what has changed. Shared since I am always encouraged by seeing how others’ work and ideas have developed over time!
So read the most recent version, and let us know what you think!
Updated 2012-08-09 to update links to the “final” version.
Tags: journal articles, online argumentation, open review, review articles, Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability
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Argumentation on Twitter
November 19th, 2011
Here’s an argument made on Twitter:
Difference between cakes and biscuits? When stale, cakes go hard, biscuits go soft. Hence Jaffa Cakes are cakes. (Was official EU ruling).
I just love this example:
- First, you can find it with “hence” (see cue phrases from an appendix to Marcu‘s thesis).
- Second, the notion of this EU (tax) ruling amuses me.
- Third, it shows that 140 characters is enough for a complex argumentative structure. This has three main claims: When stale, cakes go hard, biscuits go soft; Jaffa Cakes are cakes; and [Jaffa Cakes are cakes due to] official EU ruling.
- Enthymemes anyone?
It’s hard, though, to draw the line between an argument and an explanation in this context.
Jaffa Cakes, for you North American readers, are a common dessert-y snack in Ireland and the UK. Vaguely like Kandy Kakes found in the Philadelphia area/East Coast, but usually have an orange filling.
Tags: argumentation, argumentative structures, EU tax law, informal argumentation, Jaffa cakes, Kandy Kakes, twitter, VAT
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YouTube “I dislike this” button
November 14th, 2011
A few weeks ago, I noticed something new on YouTube: an “I dislike this” button.
I wonder how long that’s been there?
When I talk about online argumentation, a frequent comment is “too bad there’s only +1 and Like; we need more expressivity”.
See related discussions:
Tags: dislike button, like button, online argumentation, opinions, YouTube
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OH: Informal argumentation
October 31st, 2011
Yesterday I overheard two guys talking in the grocery store:
I am more of a John Lennon than you are.
The response?
My hair has more volume, therefore I am.
A brief, informal argument. Halloween-themed, I presume.
Tags: informal argumentation, John Lennon, overheard
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Reading Group talk: Using Controlled Natural Language and First Order Logic to improve e-consultation discussion forums
September 7th, 2011
Today the DERI Reading Group starts up again for the fall. I’m talking about three papers from the IMPACT project.
For now this is just to provide my colleagues with links; check back later for slides, etc.Scroll down for slides and video.
- Adam Wyner and Tom van Engers. A Framework for Enriched, Controlled On-line Discussion Forums for e-Government Policy-making. EGOVIS 2010. AcaWiki Summary
- Adam Wyner, Tom van Enger, and Kiavash Bahreini. From Policy-making Statements to First-order Logic. Electronic Government and Electronic Participation 2010. AcaWiki Summary
- Adam Wyner and Tom van Enger. Towards Web-based Mass Argumentation in Natural Language. (long version of this EKAW 2010 poster). AcaWiki Summary
Using Controlled Natural Language and First Order Logic to improve e-consultation discussion forums (DERI reading group talk)
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Reading Group talk: Using Controlled Natural Language and First Order Logic to improve e-consultation discussion forums from Jodi Schneider on Vimeo.
Tags: IMPACT, paper summaries, reading group
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Forking conversations, forking documents
August 7th, 2011
When the topic of discussion changes, how do you indicate that? Tender Support seems clunky in some ways, but their forking mechanism helps conversations stay focused on their topic:
Forking with Tender Support
Lately forking has also been on my mind as the Library Linked Data group edits and reorganizes our draft report: wiki history and version control is helpful, but insufficient. What I miss most is a “fork” feature, where you could temporarily take ownership of a copy (socially, this indicates that something is a possibility, rather than the consensus; technically, it indicates provenance, would allow “show all forks of this”, and might help in merge changes back). Perhaps naming and tagging particular history items in MediaWiki could help address this, but I think really I want something like git.
I’ve seen a few examples of writing and editing prose with git; I’d like to get a better understanding of the best practices for making collaborative changes in texts with distributed version control systems. Surely somebody’s written up manuals on this?
Tags: document management, dvcs, editing, forking, git, version control, wikis
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Wikipedia and the World Wide Argument Web
February 27th, 2011
I spoke about my first year Ph.D. research in December at DERI. The topic of my talk: Wikipedia discussions and the nascent World Wide Argument Web. I was proud to have the video (below) posted to our institute video stream.
The Wikipedia research is drawn from our ACM Symposium on Applied Computing paper:
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin, “Understanding and Improving Wikipedia Article Discussion Spaces.” In SAC 2011 (Web Track), TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011.
Jodi Schneider – Constructing knowledge through argument: Wikipedia and World Wide Argument Web from DERI, NUI Galway on Vimeo.
Wikipedia and World Wide Argument Web (DERI meeting 2010-12-03)
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This is ongoing work, and feedback is most welcome.
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Time-based comments
I’ve been digging SoundCloud lately.
Today I noticed time-based comments in their tracks. It’s a bit disorienting to have comments pop up as you’re listening. Maybe after adjusting, there’s a pleasant sense of having a conversation going on around you. Definitely feels like you’ve got company!
Comments pop up as the track plays
Avatars appear below the track to indicate that there are comments, and you can scroll over avatars to read comments. You can also hide the comments if you prefer.
Entering a comment from the timeline
Avatar icons appear in the overview
Example track due to Duncan.
Tags: commenting, comments, SoundCloud, threaded discussions, time-based discussions, timelines
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