Computational Predictors in Online Social Deliberations
Woolf, Beverly Park (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Murray, Thomas (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Xu, Xiaoxi (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Osterweil, Leon (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Clarke, Lori (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Wing, Leah (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) | Katsh, Ethan (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
This research seeks to identify online participants' disposi tion and skills. A prototype dashboard and annotation scheme were developed to support facilitators and several computational predictors were identified that show statisti cally significant correlations with dialogue skills as ob served by human annotators.
Feb-22-2012