Deliberative critics contend that because societal inequalities cannot be bracketed in deliberative settings, the deliberative process inevitably perpetuates these inequalities. As a result, they argue, deliberation does not serve its theorized purposes, but rather produces distorted dialogue determined by inequalities, not merits. Advocates of deliberation must confront these criticisms: do le...

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In this paper we describe automatic systems for identifying whether participants demonstrate social deliberative behavior within their online conversations. We test 3 corpora containing 2617 annotated segments. With machine learning models using linguistic features, we identify social deliberative behavior with up to 68.09% in-domain accuracy (compared to 50% baseline), 62.17% in-domain precisi...

Policy decisions do not always take into account research results, and there is still little research being conducted on interventions that promote their use, particularly in Africa. To promote the use of research evidence in Africa, deliberative dialogue workshops are increasingly recommended as a means to establish evidence-informed dialogue among multiple stakeholders engaged in policy decis...

Dialogical argumentation practice contributes positively to argumentative writing skills. Specifically, deliberative dialogues are effective in promoting argument and counterargument integration students' essays. However, the potential of dialogic activities may be increased if they combined with instructional practices. The primary objective this research is compare impact four intervention pr...

December 2013 Vol.14 No.1 IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin Abstract—An important decision when developing a software agent is the design of its internal architecture. Several models of deliberative and reactive architectures have already been proposed. However, approaches of hybrid software architectures that combine deliberative and reactive components, with the advantages of both behavio...

Several problems need to be addressed when integrating reactive and deliberative layers in a hybrid architecture, most importantly the different time scales of operation and (possibly) different data representations of the individual layers. This paper proposes an interface component called GLUE that is designed to mediate between a schema-based reactive and higher-level deliberative layer. We ...

Hybrid deliberative-reactive control architectures are a popular and effective approach to the control of robotic navigation applications. However, due to the fundamental differences in the design of the reactive and deliberative layers, the design of hybrid control architectures can pose significant difficulties. We propose a novel approach to improving system-level performance of hybrid contr...

In real-time Multi-Agent Systems, Real-Time Agents merge intelligent deliberative techniques with real-time reactive actions in a distributed environment. CBR has been successfully applied in Multi-Agent Systems as deliberative mechanism for agents. However, in the case of Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems the temporal restrictions of their Real-Time Agents make their deliberation process to be tem...