DEliBot – Deliberation Enchancing Bot

Project Description

Group deliberation occurs in a variety of contexts, such as hiring panels, study groups, and scientific project meetings. What is in common across these applications is that individuals in the group incorporate various deliberation strategies to communicate their ideas and ultimately to reach the best decision. This process of open dialogue creates a platform for ideas to be exchanged, debated, and evaluated, which allows for a wide array of perspectives to be presented and considered. Deliberation offers a framework that both allows for the propagation of ideas within a group, as well as facilitates the refinement of arguments and the introduction of new ideas.

The ultimate goal of the DEliBot project is to develop dialogue agents, that can provide the framework, where groups of people can collaborate efficiently with each other. The DEliBot should ask good probing questions that promote good arguments, healthy dialogue dynamics, and the propagation of good ideas.

News

  • [26.01.2022] DEliBot project presentation at the Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group @The Alan Turing Institute
  • [09.09.2022] “What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations” is presented at SIGDIAL’2022. [Link to slides]
  • [26.07.22] Our paper “What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations” was accepted at SIGDIAL’2022 (to be presented in September). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12035

DEliData

A dataset for deliberation in multi-party problem solving

DialogueDen

Data platform for synchronous data collection in the wild


Let’s talk about constructive discussions!

Contact us at: Georgi.Karadzhov[at]cl.cam.ac.uk


Contributors

Georgi Karadzhov
PhD Student
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge
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Research Interests:
– Dialogue Systems
– Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
– Fact-checking and online trust

Prof Andreas Vlachos
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge
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Research Interests:
– Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
– Automated fact-checking
– Dialogue Models

Dr Tom Stafford
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science
Dept. of Psychology
University of Sheffield
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Research Interests:
– Learning and Decision Making
– Psychology of reason, argument and persuasion
– Data Intensive Methods