Research
Our research is concerned with the computational linguistic modeling of discourse, rhetorical strategies and argumentation in naturally spoken communication. We also assess the capabilities of Large Language Models on areas relevant for the general public, e.g., school education, political impersonation and moral argumentation.
Our work is currently funded by two research projects:
- Moral Hallucinations (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Priority Program 'Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology (LaSTing)', SPP 2556, until 06/29)
- Deliberation Laboratory (VolkswagenStiftung, AI and the future of society, until 07/24, PhD student: Zlata Kikteva)
With DeLab we develop a transformative online testing environment that allows us to explain the nature, causes, and consequences of citizens’ perceptions in deliberative public, online dialogue across languages. By developing a virtual moderator that can follow different cultural scripts, we are able to test the conditions under which citizens and groups evaluate what they see as trustworthy and believable in online communication.
Past projects include the project on Linguistic Analysis of Public Service Encounters (DFG, EXC Politics of Inequality, University of Konstanz, until 07/23, PhD student: Wassiliki Siskou), the ADD-up project (Augmented Deliberative Democracy), also supported by the VolkswagenStiftung (until 12/21).
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