VisArgue Final Workshop

"VisArgue - Analysis and visualization of political negotiations"

February 18th and 19th, 2016
Turmforum Stuttgart, Germany

Schedule Venue Workshop Dinner Accommodation Contact

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Schedule

Thursday, 18th of February 2016:

9:00	Prof. Miriam Butt, PhD, VisArgue	Welcome
	Gisela Erler, Staatsrätin für Zivilgesellschaft und Bürgerbeteiligung, Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg
	Dr. Maria Böhme, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.
9:30	Dr. Heiner Geißler, Bundesminister a.D.	Bürgeraufstand und direkte Demokratie
10:00	Coffee break
10:15	VisArgue Team	VisArgue: Demonstration und Praesentation der Projektresultate
12:00	Lunch
13:30	Prof. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, PhD, London School of Economics	Explanations and Accountability: Deliberation in UK Select Committees
14:15	Prof. Dr. André Bächtiger, Universität Stuttgart	Deliberative Outcomes: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Challenges
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Prof. Dr. Katharina Holzinger & Dr. Valentin Gold, Universität Konstanz	The Effect of Deliberative Quality on the Perception of Speakers
16:15	Prof. Marilyn Walker, PhD, University of California Santa Cruz	Argument Clarity and Argument Facet Similarity in Social Media Arguments

Workshop dinner in the evening.

Friday, 19th of February 2016:

9:30

Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede,
Universität Potsdam

Automatically finding Arguments and Counter-Arguments in Text: Some Results for English and German

10:15

Prof. Miriam Butt, PhD & Dr. Annette Hautli-Janisz,
Universität Konstanz

Annotating Linguistic Cues for Political Argumentation

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych,
Technische Universität Darmstadt

Arguments in the Wild: An Automatic Analysis beyond Political Debates

12:15

Lunch

13:30

Prof. Dr Gerhard Heyer,
Universität Leipzig

Hot Topics: Analytic Methods for the Identification of Controversial Discussions in Text

14:15

Prof. Dr. Daniel Keim & Mennatallah El-Assady,
Universität Konstanz

Visual Analysis of Speaker Behavior in Multi-Party Conversations

15:00

Closing

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Venue

The workshop will take place at the conference room of the Turmforum, directly located at the historic tower of the main station.

How to get to Stuttgart:

By plane (Stuttgart Airport):
Regular S-Bahn connections to the main station (travel time: ~ 30 mins). More information at the airport station or go to VVS.

By car:
Follow the signs to Stuttgart city center. Once you are in the center, follow the signs leading you to the main station.

By train/S-Bahn:
If you are arriving by S-Bahn, follow the signs with the train/DB symbol up to the railway platform and go to the south exit.
If you are arrinving by train, you are already on the right level -- just proceed to the south exit.

How to get to the Turmforum:

The Turmforum is located in the middle of the city center, inside the main station building. Being at the main station, take the south exit ("Südausgang") to get into the station tower. The workshop takes place at the conference room on level 9. There is an elevator opposite to the information desk.

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Workshop Dinner

The workshop dinner will be on Thursday night at 19:00 at AMADEUS which is located nearby the castle square, just a ten-minute walk from the Turmforum.

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