Computational Controversy

Benjamin Timmermans; Tobias Kuhn; Kaspar Beelen; Lora Aroyo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_23

Computational Controversy

Benjamin Timmermans
, Tobias Kuhn
, Kaspar Beelen
, Lora Aroyo

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Climate change, vaccination, abortion, Trump: Many topics are surrounded by fierce controversies. The nature of such heated debates and their elements have been studied extensively in the social science literature. More recently, various computational approaches to controversy analysis have appeared, using new data sources such as Wikipedia, which help us now better understand these phenomena. However, compared to what social sciences have discovered about such debates, the existing computational approaches mostly focus on just a few of the many important aspects around the concept of controversies. In order to link the two strands, we provide and evaluate here a controversy model that is both, rooted in the findings of the social science literature and at the same time strongly linked to computational methods. We show how this model can lead to computational controversy analytics that have full coverage over all the crucial aspects that make up a controversy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Informatics
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II
Editors	Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri
Publisher	Springer
Pages	288-300
Number of pages	13
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319672564
ISBN (Print)	9783319672557
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_23
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	10540
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Timmermans, B., Kuhn, T., Beelen, K., & Aroyo, L. (2017). Computational Controversy. In G. L. Ciampaglia, A. Mashhadi, & T. Yasseri (Eds.), Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 2, pp. 288-300). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10540). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_23

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Computational Controversy. / Timmermans, Benjamin; Kuhn, Tobias; Beelen, Kaspar et al.
Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II. ed. / Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia; Afra Mashhadi; Taha Yasseri. Vol. 2 Springer, 2017. p. 288-300 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10540).

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