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Deliberation in Policy Design:
The FUPOL Project
Guillaume Bouchard, William Darling
,
Stephane
Clinchant
, and Arturo Mondragon
Xerox Research Centre Europe
6,
chemin
de
Maupertuis
, 38240
Meylan
, France
{firstname.lastname@xrce.xerox.com}
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Outline
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Problem / Challenge
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Introduction to FUPOL
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Online Political Deliberation
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Opportunities and Problems
•
Citizen Voices in FUPOL
•
Hot Topic Sensing
•
Feedback Community Platform
•
Example Use Case
•
Conclusions
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Problem / Challenge
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Democracy depends on rich political debate, with
input from all sorts of citizens
•
Currently, debate is often restricted because
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Few citizens attend political meetings
•
Different groups don’t speak with each other
•
Policy makers can’t find/access citizens’ opinions
•
Policy makers
want
to hear from their citizens
•
Ex:
Consultation
sur
l’avenir
du
Parc
Olympique
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Examples of Online Political
Opinions and Debate
Parc
Olympique
Kchang
16
oct.
2011, 11:14 AM
I live in this area and jog around the Olympic
stadium several times a week […] the best
thing that could happen with the Olympic
stadium is to open it up to commerce
B
Théroux
17
oct.
2011, 12:24
P
M
I perfectly agree with your post. Why
people go to St
-
Denis Street, St
-
Laurent or
the
Complexe
Desjardins?
Complexe
Desjardins was a creepy place
twenty
years
ago. Nobody was going there for
lunch […]
Twitter:
wind turbines
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Introduction to FUPOL
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FUPOL is an EC
-
funded large scale
research project
•
A
imed at developing novel governance
models to engage stakeholders in
decision making / policy creation
•
FUPOL = the Future of Policy creation
•
Main goal is to enable citizens to
participate in public political debate
•
We will automatically collect, analyze,
and interpret opinions expressed on a
large scale from the Internet
Scenarios, Simulation
Stakeholder
Involvement
„Hot
“ Topic
sensing
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Online Political Deliberation
•
It is very common today for citizens to
express their political opinions online
•
Users discuss policies, suggest ideas,
complain about (and sometimes praise)
problems or political decisions taken in
their city
–
all online
•
These valuable opinions are shared
disparately throughout the Internet on
blogs, political forums, Facebook, Twitter,
and elsewhere
•
Bringing it all together into a coherent
whole is the challenge
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Opportunities and Problems
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The vast amount of citizen opinion that exists
online could lead to a revolution in participatory
politics
•
Democracy as it should work
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There are several issues to work out
•
O
pinions are spread out on multiple websites
and social networks
–
how do we find them?
•
How do we discover “hot” discussion topics?
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How do we encourage citizens who don’t
currently participate to start doing so?
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How do we separate the ideas from the noise?
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Citizen Voices in FUPOL
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How do we solve some of these problems?
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Text analysis
•
We are interested in allowing policy makers
to easily find and understand what citizens
are saying, and to equally as easily get
back to them to solicit more feedback
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Hot Topic Sensing (HTS)
•
The HTS module seeks out “hot topics” of
interest to policy makers on the Internet
•
E
xamines disparate sources such as
newspaper forums, political blogs,
Facebook discussions and Twitter posts
to find relevant discussion and what is
“hot”
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Hot topic
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Feedback Community
Platform (FCP)
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The FCP acts as an Idea Management System
(IMS) with two purposes:
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Policy makers can efficiently analyze citizens’
opinions to help guide policy decisions
•
Citizens can answer questions, express opinions,
and point policy makers towards perceived
problems
•
One of the principal differences between the FCP
and a traditional IMS is the text analysis features
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Automatic categorization of discovered ideas
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Automatic summarization of citizen discussions
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Sentiment analysis of citizens’ opinions
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Example Use Case
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The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) proposed a set of administrative
regulations to govern the marketing of organic
labeled products
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Led to more than 20,000 citizen comments
(mostly against)
•
Problem!
•
Reading through, categorizing, and distilling this
huge amount of data represents a huge
investment in time for busy law
-
makers
•
Automatic summarization is our goal
•
This is a proposed summary that we envision…
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FOR
(~
3
%
)
:
General
(~
100
%
)
-
The
standards,
in
general,
appear
to
be
well
thought
out
.
-
Having
a
strictly
defined
definition
of
the
term
"Organic"
when
used
on
food
labeling
is,
in
my
opinion,
a
very
good
idea
.
-
I
am
very
much
in
favor
of
the
assurance
such
a
standard
would
give
to
the
consumer
.
AGAINST
(~
97
%
)
:
General
(~
30
%
)
-
It
goes
against
everything
that
the
"organic"
label
stands
for
.
-
The
national
organic
foods
act
is
too
weak
.
-
The
American
consumer
should
be
able
to
depend
on
the
label
"organic"
meaning
natural
from
start
to
finish
.
Genetic
engineering
/
Irradiation
(~
60
%
)
-
Any
Federal
definition
of
"organic"
must
preclude
use
of
radiation
in
processing,
sludge
as
fertilizer,
animal
by
-
products
as
feed
and
genetic
engineering
.
-
Under
NO
circumstance
do
I
want
to
have
genetically
engineered
livestock
or
irradiated
products
considered
acceptable
for
the
"organic"
foods
labeling
.
-
Labelling
foods
that
have
been
irradiated
or
genetically
engineered
as
ORGANIC
is
MISLEADING
to
the
public!
Animal
Treatment
(~
5
%
)
-
Living
conditions
for
livestock
should
also
be
addressed
in
any
proposal
that
is
made
to
deem
foods
"organic"
.
-
I
also
think
that
livestock
feed
should
be
regulated
to
prevent
the
livestock
from
being
fed
"recycled"
animal
by
-
products
.
Other
(~
5
%
)
-
I
urge
you
to
extend
the
time
allowed
for
public
feedback
.
-
If
the
proposed
National
Organic
Standard
passes
in
its
current
form,
I
feel
that
I
would
not
know
what
I
am
buying,
nor
be
able
to
trust
in
its
safety
.
Example Report
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Conclusions
•
We have presented the FUPOL project
•
Our approach involves text analysis technologies to
automatically find important topics being discussed
throughout the Internet and present them to
lawmakers in an easily digestible form
•
HTS finds hot topics on the Internet
•
FCP collates citizens’ opinions on these topics and
presents them efficiently to law makers
•
Future
r
esearch
d
irections
•
Finding relevant citizen opinion wherever it may lie
•
Automatically understanding the nuanced opinion to
properly be able to present it to law makers
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