What arguments were used for Stuttgart 21?
An interdisciplinary project at the University of Konstanz funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research examines persuasion strategies in the political debate
In the project "VisArgue. Why and when do arguments win? – An analysis and visualization of political negotiations" at the University of Konstanz, an automated text analytical tool is being developed using methods from political science, linguistics and computer science that will provide new insights into the workings of deliberative political discourse. Under the heading "eHumanities", the project is being funded until 2015 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with a total of 876,000 euros. The idea behind funding "eHumanities" is to support research in the humanities and social sciences with the help of yet to be developed new methods of modern information science.
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