Earlier this month, EDV joined the SICSA Workshop on Argument Mining 2014 held at the Centre for Argument Technology of the University of Dundee, Scotland. The focus of the meeting was on the semi-automatic and automatic extraction of arguments from unstructured natural language text from the perspective of information extraction, information retrieval and computational linguistics. The […]
The OU team presented EDV at a seminar in KMi last Thursday 19 June. Details of the event, a podcast and links to the slides are available below. The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) Project This event took place on 19th June 2014 at 11:30am Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna […]
EDV project lead Professor Stephen Coleman gave evidence to House of Lords’ Communications Select Committee Inquiry on Broadcast General Election Debates [Hansard transcript pdf]. As the clips below reflect, there is considerable interest in the potential of the web to help engage and educate citizens around the envisaged Prime Ministerial debates. p.84 — Professor Stephen […]