Citizen/popular initiatives provide a way for the inclusion of constitutional or statutory proposals on the ballot (e.g., at an election) if enough signatures are collected in support of the proposal [1, 2, 3, 4]. Once citizens are enabled to digitally sign such initiatives remotely, the next challenge will be to provide support for verified eligible citizens to debate on running initiatives. I...

U n io n s a n d m a n a g e m e n t often d o n ’t ag ree a t the b a r ­ g a in in g t a b le , b u t M o n d ay night, AFL-CIO Central Labor C ou n c i l P r e s i d e n t Bob Warnock, Jr. and AM General Vice P r e s i d e n t o f H u m a n Resources Gary Wuslicb agreed th a t un ions a re e s se n t ia l for the health of both workers and th e c o r p o r a t i o n a t “U n ion Forum: The R...

A polarization has developed in American political debates concerning the nature of society as a rational agent that implements policies to govern individual behavior. As analyzed by Lakoff, the reasons for discord are not entirely based on logical consistency, but originate in radically different moral principles based on metaphors, values, and faith. How people attend to alternative views, ha...

This paper presents an unsupervised opinion analysis method for debate-side classification, i.e., recognizing which stance a person is taking in an online debate. In order to handle the complexities of this genre, we mine the web to learn associations that are indicative of opinion stances in debates. We combine this knowledge with discourse information, and formulate the debate side classifica...

The constant emergence and change of technologies in the form of digital products and services can cause certain groups of the population to feel excluded, older adults represent one such group. We investigate how to combine applied research on computational models of argument and human-centric computing to impact the way in which older adults interact with broadcast debates. This paper describ...

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