VisArgue – A Visual Text Analytics Framework for the Study of Deliberative Communication
Proceedings
El-Assady, Mennatallah, Valentin Gold, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Wolfgang Jentner, Miriam Butt, Katharina Holzinger, and Daniel A. Keim. “VisArgue – A Visual Text Analytics Framework for the Study of Deliberative Communication”. In Širinić, Daniela, Jan Šnajder, Zoltán Fazekas and Shaun Bevan (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text (PolText2016), pp. 31–36, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. 2016.
For the last two decades, deliberative democracy has been intensively debated within political science and other related fields. Only recently, deliberation research has experienced a computational turn. In this paper, we present a linguistic and visual framework for the study of deliberative communication. The framework includes a range of visual analytics approaches to support research into deliberation. In particular, we propose a range of visualizations for highlighting deliberative patterns over time, speakers, and debates.