Social media platforms are often accused of disproportionally exposing their users to like-
minded opinions, thereby fueling political polarization. However, empirical evidence of this …

In 2020, societies debated the use of government restrictions on public life to stem the
COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these debates took place online. The Internet enables people …

In this paper, we present the results of a study where participants were asked to rate the
similarity between sets of positions and arguments. Our goal is to provide a baseline for …

A lof of people use voting advice applications (VAAs) as a decision-making tool to assist
them in deciding which political party to vote for in an election. We think that arguments …

Exchanging arguments is an important part in communication, but we are often flooded with
lots of arguments for different positions or are captured in filter bubbles. Tools which can …

It is often interesting to know how similar two persons argue, eg when comparing the
attitudes of voters and political parties, or when building an argumentation-based …

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that allows
computers to comprehend, interpret, modify, and extract meaningful information from …

Comparing attitudes different people or organizations have in an argumentation is often
relevant and useful, eg for clustering using opinions mentioned in argumentations, finding a …