Making democratic deliberation and participation more accessible: the iDEM project

Saggion, Horacio; O’Flaherty, John; Blanchet, Thomas; Sharoff, Serge; Sanfilippo, Silvia; Muñoz, Lian; Gollegger, Martin; Rascón, Almudena; Martí, José Luis; Szasz, Sandra; Bott, Stefan Markus; Sayman, Volkan

Making democratic deliberation and participation more accessible: the iDEM project

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dc.contributor.author Saggion, Horacio
dc.contributor.author O’Flaherty, John
dc.contributor.author Blanchet, Thomas
dc.contributor.author Sharoff, Serge
dc.contributor.author Sanfilippo, Silvia
dc.contributor.author Muñoz, Lian
dc.contributor.author Gollegger, Martin
dc.contributor.author Rascón, Almudena
dc.contributor.author Martí, José Luis
dc.contributor.author Szasz, Sandra
dc.contributor.author Bott, Stefan Markus
dc.contributor.author Sayman, Volkan
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-27T13:48:59Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-27T13:48:59Z
dc.date.issued 2024-05-27
dc.description Comunicació presentada a: SEPLN – CEDI 2024 Seminar of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing - 7th Spanish Conference on Informatics; del 19 al 20 de juny 2024 a A Coruña, Espanya.
dc.description.abstract Deliberative and participatory processes currently don’t have full legitimacy due to the exclusion and marginalisation of several vulnerable communities from democratic spaces. It is well documented that people with limited language skills, such as people with cognitive disabilities, struggle to participate in democratic processes. This happens in spite of the advocacy work of organizations which promote human rights. The iDEM project aims at addressing the barriers in deliberative and participatory democratic practices through a thorough intersectional analysis of conditions under which current structures and systems limit participation of marginalised and vulnerable communities. Specially those with limited skills in reading, writing or understanding a fairly complex language, which is often required for deliberative and participatory processes. iDEM will lay the theoretical foundations for the analysis of current marginalisation from deliberative processes of diverse under-represented groups due to a lack of language skills. It will adopt a user-centred approach for making participatory processes more accessible and inclusive, developing advanced natural language processing technologies (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) to empower under-represented groups, with tools to facilitate communication and dialog in democratic spaces. iDEM will co-create the next-generation multilingual models aimed at: (1) detecting possible sources of problems in understanding messages for several European languages and audiences, (2) automatically adapting texts in those languages to be accessible and unbiased for these audiences, (3) providing AI tools for enhancing the generation of appropriate messages and discourses. iDEM aims to create more accessible democratic spaces in Italy and Spain with customised technology enhancing the participation and representation of marginalised groups by providing unbiased and inclusive technology.
dc.description.sponsorship This document is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under the Grant Agreement No. 101132431 (iDEM Project). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. UOL was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10103529).
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60256
dc.language.iso engca
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101132431
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/10103529
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ca
dc.subject.keyword Deliberation
dc.subject.keyword Participation
dc.subject.keyword Democracy
dc.subject.keyword Accessibility
dc.subject.keyword Text Simplification
dc.subject.keyword Text Generation
dc.subject.keyword Easy to Read
dc.title Making democratic deliberation and participation more accessible: the iDEM projectca
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/reportca
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionca

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