Mining Social Deliberation in Online Communication -- If You Were Me and I Were You

作者：Xiaoxi Xu, Tom Murray, Beverly Park Woolf, D. A. Smith · 年份：2013 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Complex Network Analysis Techniques、Online Learning and Analytics、Social Media and Politics

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexi-cal, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate social deliberative skills from various online dialogues. We evaluate our mod-els using three different corpora with participants of different educational and motivational levels. We propose a protocol about how to use these features to build models that achieve the best in-domain performance and identify the most useful features for building robust models in cross-domain applica-tions. We also reveal lexical and discourse characteristics of social deliberative skills. Keywords Social deliberative skills, collaborative problem solving, col-laborative learning, collaborative knowledge-building, dis-course analysis, applied machine learning, feature engineer-ing 1.