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• Overview of Methods for Computational Text Analysis to Support the Evaluation of Contributions in Public Participation
  In this publication in Digital Government: Research and Practice Julia Romberg and Tobias Escher offer a review of the computational techniques that have been used in order to support the evaluation of contributions in public … Continue reading “Overview of Methods for Computational Text Analysis to Support the Evaluation of Contributions in Public Participation”
• Mobility Transition through Participation? Policy impact of discursive, consultative public participation on urban transport projects for sustainability
  Dissertation Projekt, Laura Mark In my dissertation project at the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University, I am using two case studies to investigate the substantive impact of consultative public participation on political decisions … Continue reading “Mobility Transition through Participation? Policy impact of discursive, consultative public participation on urban transport projects for sustainability”
• Supporting the Manual Evaluation Process of Citizen’s Contributions Through Natural Language Processing
  Doctoral thesis of Julia Romberg Engaging citizens in decision-making processes is a widely implemented instrument in democracies. On the one hand, such public participation processes serve the goal of achieving a more informed process and … Continue reading “Supporting the Manual Evaluation Process of Citizen’s Contributions Through Natural Language Processing”
• Enriching Machine Prediction with Subjectivity Using the Example of Argument Concreteness in Public Participation
  In this publication in the Workshop on Argument Mining, Julia Romberg develops a method to incorporate human perspectivism in machine prediction. The method is tested on the task of argument concreteness in public participation contributions. … Continue reading “Enriching Machine Prediction with Subjectivity Using the Example of Argument Concreteness in Public Participation”
• Automated Topic Categorization of Citizens’ Contributions: Reducing Manual Labeling Efforts Through Active Learning
  In this publication in Electronic Government, Julia Romberg and Tobias Escher investigate the potential of active learning for reducing the manual labeling efforts in categorizing public participation contributions thematically. Abstract Political authorities in democratic countries … Continue reading “Automated Topic Categorization of Citizens’ Contributions: Reducing Manual Labeling Efforts Through Active Learning”
• Socio-spatial justice through public participation?
  In this presentation at the AESOP (Assosiation of European Schools of Planning) annual Congress in 2022, Laura Mark, Katharina Huseljić and Tobias Escher introduced a framework of distributive socio-spatial justice and the way consultation procedures … Continue reading “Socio-spatial justice through public participation?”
• A Corpus of German Citizen Contributions in Mobility Planning: Supporting Evaluation Through Multidimensional Classification
  In this publication in the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Julia Romberg, Laura Mark and Tobias Escher introduce a collection of annotated datasets that promotes the development of machine learning approaches to support the … Continue reading “A Corpus of German Citizen Contributions in Mobility Planning: Supporting Evaluation Through Multidimensional Classification”
• 2nd workshop for practitioners on automated text analysis for citizen contributions
  Part of the efforts of the research group is to develop tools that support the evaluation of citizen contributions from participation processes. On 10 December 2021 the research group hosted a workshop with practitioners (including … Continue reading “2nd workshop for practitioners on automated text analysis for citizen contributions”
• Robust Methods for Classifying Argument Components in Public Participation Processes for Mobility Planning
  In this publication in the Workshop on Argument Mining, Julia Romberg and Stefan Conrad address the robustness of classification algorithms for argument mining to build reliable models that generalize across datasets. Abstract Public participation processes … Continue reading “Robust Methods for Classifying Argument Components in Public Participation Processes for Mobility Planning”
• New seminar: Mobility and sustainability: Social aspects of the mobility turn
  This term we offer a MA-course on “Mobility and sustainability: Social aspects of the mobility turn”. More information are available in German.
• Results of the first practical workshop of the junior research group CIMT
  Our first practical workshop in summer 2020 focused on the question of how the evaluation of citizen contributions can be technically supported and what requirements practitioners have for a software solution designed to (partially) automate … Continue reading “Results of the first practical workshop of the junior research group CIMT”