Valentin Gold will present recent progress at the PolText Conference in Tokyo. The presentation focusses on the technical side of the project. In detail, we will present the ADD-up prototype software with a special focus on the argument mining pipeline.
Project meeting @ ARG-tech
Again a very productive and creative ADD-up project meeting, this time at ARG-tech in Dundee!
.@brianpluss, Annette Hautli-Janisz @unikonstanz & @__vgold__ @uniGoettingen giving a presentation @ARG_tech on the progress of our ADD-up project. Find out more at https://t.co/tFEF7vVppg pic.twitter.com/Ljyy4cQf0g
— ARG-tech (@ARG_tech) June 13, 2018
Public deliberations in the wild
Earlier this month, Brian Pl√ºss attended two public deliberation events in Scotland. The first one was part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh‘s inquiry on Scotland’s Energy Future and took place in Glasgow on 3 May 2018.
Have you got plans for this evening after the #AllEnergy conference today? Continue your energy-packed day with a visit to the IET Teachers' Building on the way home, drop in at 7pm and have a chat about your concerns for Scotland's Energy Future https://t.co/35DiYWd1gd
— The RSE (@news_RSE) May 3, 2018
The second event was organised by the UK Houses of Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee as part of their inquiry on Global Britain¬†and¬† was held in St Andrews on 10 May 2018. Continue reading “Public deliberations in the wild”
Questions workshop at DGfS 2018 & project meeting in Stuttgart
@brianpluss Kasia Budzynska & Chris Reed gave a presentation on modeling questions in public arbitrations at #DGfS2018 @Uni_Stuttgart, 7-9 March. They also held the 2nd ADD-up project mtg with Annette Hautli-Janisz @unikonstanz & @__vgold__ @uniGoettingen https://t.co/tFEF7wd0NQ pic.twitter.com/Oojcx24s5p
— ARG-tech (@ARG_tech) March 14, 2018
Project meeting in Meersburg
The first ADD-up project meeting in Meersburg 21-25 Nov 2017. From left to right: Brian Plüss, Annette Hautli-Janisz @unikonstanz, Valentin Gold @uniGoettingen, Chris Reed and Kasia Budzynska @dundeeuni (behind the camera). Find out more https://t.co/42e9MB4uWJ pic.twitter.com/z7j6bylw28
— ARG-tech (@ARG_tech) December 4, 2017
Argument technology with ARG-tech and the BBC
Brian Plüss was part of the Argument Technology Team that the Centre for Argument Technology; at the University of Dundee, Scotland, assembled in order to to deliver a suite of argument technology to be piloted in conjunction with BBC programming: a special edition of the Moral Maze on the BBC Radio 4 broadcast at 8pm on 11 Oct 2017 and repeated on 14 Oct and a one-off TV debate hosted by Anne Robinson, broadcasted at 9pm on Monday 16 Oct on BBC2. Annette Hautli-Janisz was part of the Argument Analytics Team. bbc.arg.tech gives more information on the project, for a look behind the scenes go here.
Paper accepted
“Modelling Questions in Public Arbitrations with Inference Anchoring Theory”, with authors Brian Pl√ºss, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed, all University of Dundee, was accepted for presentation at the DGfS workshop “Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics” in March 2018 in Stuttgart (co-organized by Annette Hautli-Janisz).