DEliBot – Deliberation Enchancing Bot

The goal of this project is to develop artificial dialogue agents (i.e. “chatbots”) that will support human deliberation in small groups.

News

[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

[29.05.2022] Tom Stafford was invited to the “You are not so smart” podcast by David McRaney. In the podcast, Tom presented his take on how deliberation and DEliBots may help us make better decisions. Check out the podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/you-are-not-so-smart/234-the-truth-wins-tom-stafford

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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