Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid NLP Approaches
<|reference_start|>Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid NLP Approaches: Modern democracies face a critical issue of declining citizen participation in decision-making. Online discussion forums are an important avenue for enhancing citizen participation. This thesis proposal 1) identifies the challenges involved in facilitating large-scale online discussions with Natural Language Processing (NLP), 2) suggests solutions to these challenges by incorporating hybrid human-AI technologies, and 3) investigates what these technologies can reveal about individual perspectives in online discussions. We propose a three-layered hierarchy for representing perspectives that can be obtained by a mixture of human intelligence and large language models. We illustrate how these representations can draw insights into the diversity of perspectives and allow us to investigate interactions in online discussions.<|reference_end|>
@article{van der meer2024facilitating,
    title={Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid NLP Approaches},
    author={Michiel van der Meer},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09439},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-srw.29},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.09439},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}