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 KeimMennatallah 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.

©Bahnprojekt Stuttgart-Ulm

 

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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  ©Bahnprojekt Stuttgart-Ulm e.V.

 

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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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Accommodation

The workshop participants will stay in the Hotel Motel One Stuttgart-Hauptbahnhof, close to the main station:

Map data ©2015 Google

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Contact

Local Organiser:

Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft
Fach D 184
D-78457 Konstanz
E-mail: miriam.butt at uni-konstanz dot de

and

Irene Wolke

Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft                                                                       
E-Mail: irene.wolke at uni-konstanz dot de