Argument Technology in the Wild | |
Event date: | November 23, 2017, 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM |
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Talk Abstract The Centre for Argument Technology has a twenty-year track record in developing foundational theory in philosophy and linguistics that is then operationalised to take the transformative step to deployed technology. The most recent example of such application was a pilot project with the BBC that led, amongst other things, to live deployment of large-scale argument analytics in conjunction with BBC programming and offered profile-raising amongst an audience of millions. This talk tells the story of this large-scale public deployment, describing theoretical foundations provided by Inference Anchoring Theory, practical organisation and choreography of time-critical, close annotation across five timezones, and then technology engineering and BBC deployment of analytics, of learning resources and of unique interactive applications. Finally, the talk reflects on a range of insights that the intensity and scale of the collaboration offers for any project seeking high-impact outcomes. Finally, as an application domain, we studied how bundling can be used as an efficient visualization technique for societal health challenges. In the context of a national study on Alzheimer disease, we focused our research on the analysis of the mental representation of geographical space for elderly people. We show that using bundling to compare the cognitive maps of dement and non-dement subjects helped neuro-psychologist to formulate new hypotheses on the evolution of Alzheimer disease. These new hypotheses led us to discover a potential marker of the disease years before the actual diagnosis. Speaker's Bio Chris Reed and Katarzyna Budzynska are part of the VW-Stiftung project "Augmented
Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up): Computational Enhancement of Large-scale Public Arbitrations in
Real Time", represented in Konstanz by Annette Haulti-Janisz from the Department of Linguistics and
will also be cooperating with the new DFG project on "Visual Analytics and Linguistic Analysis of
the Interpretation of Deliberative Argumentation" (together with Daniel Keim and Katharina
Holzinger).
Location University of Konstanz, Universitätsstr. 10, Konstanz
University of Stuttgart, VISUS-Building, Allmandring 19, Vaihingen
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