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
- [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
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
Website
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
Website
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
Website
Research Interests:
– Learning and Decision Making
– Psychology of reason, argument and persuasion
– Data Intensive Methods

