Publications

Questions in argumentative dialogue
Peer-Reviewed
Despite questions having a long-standing history in theoretical linguistics, the interface between empirically grounded corpus linguistics of questioning behaviour and…
Jan 1, 2022

Augmented Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up): Enhancing Large-scale Public Arbitrations in Real Time
Software
As part of the ADD-up project, we have developed a rather flexible framwork consisting of separate modules. This requirement responds primarily to the needs of the political science discipline. With…
Dec 31, 2021

Soziale und emotionale Dispositionen der AfD-Anhängerschaft
Proceedings
Viele Studien zur Anhängerschaft der AfD befassen sich mit dem sozioökonomischen Profil, den ideologischen Positionen, den Einstellungen zur Demokratie und/oder zum System…
Dec 3, 2020

ADD-up Projekt - Möglichkeiten und Potentiale
Websites
Das Projekt Augmented Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up): Computational Enhancement of Large-scale Public Arbitrations in Real Time wird von der VolkswagenStiftung in der…
Oct 1, 2019

Augmenting Public Deliberations through Stream Argument Analytics and Visualisations
Peer-Reviewed
Public deliberations are organised by governments and other large institutions to take the views of citizens around controversial issues. Increasing public demand and the…
Oct 18, 2018

ADD-up: Visual Analytics for Augmented Deliberative Democracy
Peer-Reviewed
We demonstrate the first prototype of the ADD-up visual analytics system. The Augmented Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up) project aims to enhance public deliberations by…
Sep 14, 2018

Conventional Implicatures in Computational Argumentation
Peer-Reviewed
In this paper we argue for incorporating a class of meaning in computational argumentation that has not been previously exploited in the area, namely conventional…
Sep 13, 2018

Towards Deliberation Analytics: Stream Processing of Argument Data for Deliberative Communication
Peer-Reviewed
Participants in a deliberative discourse are expected to follow specific rules of communication to legitimise outcomes. This paper focuses on technology developed around…
Sep 12, 2018

Explorative visuelle Textanalyse von politischen Debatten
Proceedings
Die explorative visuelle Textanalyse hat in den letzten Jahren vermehrt an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies ist unter anderem auf einen Anstieg an verfügbaren Daten zurückzuführen.…
Jul 30, 2018

Visualisierung von deliberativer Kommunikation: Möglichkeiten und Potenziale für Planungs- und Beteiligungsverfahren
Proceedings
In dieser Studie stellen wir das VisArgue-Framework vor. Das Framework kombiniert statistische, linguistische und visuelle Verfahren zur Analyse der deliberativen Qualität…
Sep 7, 2017

Interactive Visual Analysis of Transcribed Multi-Party Discourse
Peer-Reviewed
We present the first web-based Visual Analytics framework for the analysis of multi-party discourse data using verbatim text transcripts. Our framework supports a broad…
Jul 15, 2017

Visual Linguistic Analysis of Political Discussions: Measuring Deliberative Quality
Peer-Reviewed
This article reports on a Digital Humanities research project which is concerned with the automated linguistic and visual analysis of political discourses with a particular…
Apr 1, 2017

Visual Text Analytics in Context of Digital Humanities
Peer-Reviewed
Digital Humanities (DH) research brings together scholars from different disciplines to work on tackling a common research challenge. Hence, DH-projects have to overcome…
Oct 24, 2016

Visual Analysis and Exploration of the 2016 US Presidential Debates
Websites
In the last weeks, the whole world has been anticipating the US presidential debates. The three televised debates between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton have been…
Oct 1, 2016

VisArgue. Analyse und Visualisierung von politischen Verhandlungen
Proceedings
Politikwissenschaftler, Linguisten und Informatiker der Universität Konstanz haben interdisziplinär drei Jahre lang im Rahmen eines Projekts…
Sep 1, 2016

VisArgue: Analysis and Visualization of Deliberative Political Communication
Proceedings
The VisArgue project is an interdisciplinary collaboration of political science, linguistics and information science at the University of Konstanz (principal investigators…
Sep 1, 2016

VisArgue – A Visual Text Analytics Framework for the Study of Deliberative Communication
Proceedings
For the last two decades, deliberative democracy has been intensively debated within political science and other related fields. Only recently, deliberation research has…
Jul 14, 2016

ConToVi: Multi-Party Conversation Exploration using Topic-Space Views
Peer-Reviewed
We introduce a novel visual analytics approach to analyze speaker behavior patterns in multi-party conversations. We propose Topic-Space Views to track the movement of…
Jul 4, 2016

Argumentanalyse in digitalen Textkorpora
Proceedings
Die Extrahierung und Annotation von Argumentationsstrukturen hat im Bereich der automatischen Diskursanalyse in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen, sei es in…
Mar 7, 2016

Exploratory Text Analysis using Lexical Episode Plots.
Peer-Reviewed
In this paper, we present Lexical Episode Plots, a novel automated text-mining and visual analytics approach for exploratory text analysis. In particular, we first describe…
Nov 30, 2015

Towards visualizing linguistic patterns of deliberation: a case study of the S21 arbitration
Proceedings
This paper presents on-going work on analyzing strategies for argumentation via automatic means, using public data from a German arbitration. In addition to a thorough…
Jul 8, 2014

Joining Afrobarometer Surveys
Data
As part of my PhD thesis, I have generated a dataset that includes all corresponding questions across four rounds of the Afrobarometer. After having submitted my PhD thesis, I have extended the dataset up to round 5. Beginning with data from round 4, for each question the corresponding question from…
Dec 16, 2013

AB2EPR
Data
As part of my PhD thesis, I have generated a dataset that merges the respondents ethnic self-classification in the Afrobarometer to the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data family, i.e. the dataset matches individuals from the Afrobarometer data to their corresponding ethnic group in the EPR dataset. First, I coded the individuals ethnic…
Dec 15, 2013

Shaping Conflict and Perceptions: The Influence of Political Institutions on Ethnicity in Africa
PhD thesis
The scholarly debate on which political institutions foster peace in ethnically divided societies is characterized by opposing positions: One the one hand, advocates of the…
Dec 13, 2013

Partitioning ethnic groups and their members: Explaining variations in satisfaction with democracy in Africa.
Peer-Reviewed
This article examines the conditions that influence citizens’ satisfaction with democracy in Africa. In the analysis, individual, ethnic group, and national context…
Dec 13, 2012

The Diffusion of Atrocities: A Spatial Analysis on the Role of Refugees
Proceedings
A range of theories have attempted to explain the existing variation in the level of civilian victimization across countries. To date, most of these theories have been…
May 1, 2011
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