@inproceedings{uszkoreit-etal-2017-common,
    title = "Common Round: Application of Language Technologies to Large-Scale Web Debates",
    author = {Uszkoreit, Hans  and
      Gabryszak, Aleksandra  and
      Hennig, Leonhard  and
      Steffen, J{\"o}rg  and
      Ai, Renlong  and
      Busemann, Stephan  and
      Dehdari, Jon  and
      van Genabith, Josef  and
      Heigold, Georg  and
      Rethmeier, Nils  and
      Rubino, Raphael  and
      Schmeier, Sven  and
      Thomas, Philippe  and
      Wang, He  and
      Xu, Feiyu},
    editor = "Martins, Andr{\'e}  and
      Pe{\~n}as, Anselmo",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/E17-3002",
    pages = "5--8",
    abstract = "Web debates play an important role in enabling broad participation of constituencies in social, political and economic decision-taking. However, it is challenging to organize, structure, and navigate a vast number of diverse argumentations and comments collected from many participants over a long time period. In this paper we demonstrate Common Round, a next generation platform for large-scale web debates, which provides functions for eliciting the semantic content and structures from the contributions of participants. In particular, Common Round applies language technologies for the extraction of semantic essence from textual input, aggregation of the formulated opinions and arguments. The platform also provides a cross-lingual access to debates using machine translation.",
}