Adaptation for sustainable persuasion

Sustainable Urban Development Planner for Climate Change Adaptation (SUDPLAN)

SUDPLAN is an EU FP7 project combining IT and environmental knowhow in a novel way, bringing an easy-to-use, web-based decision support system for urban climate services. It will allow city planners to take climate change and its impact on the urban environment into account in the urban planning process. The main components of the SUDPLAN product are the Scenario Management System, the Common S...

Human Security, Vulnerability and Sustainable Adaptation

Resources for Persuasion

This paper presents resources and strategies for persuasive natural language processing. After the introduction of a specifically tagged corpus, some techniques for affective language processing and for persuasive lexicon extraction are provided together with prospective scenarios of application.

Planning for Persuasion

We aim to find a winning strategy that determines the arguments a proponent should assert during a dialogue such that it will successfully persuade its opponent of some goal arguments, regardless of the strategy employed by the opponent. By restricting the strategies we consider for the proponent to what we call simple strategies and by modelling this as a planning problem, we are able to use a...

" Persuasion for a Better Cause "