@inproceedings{behrendt-etal-2025-supporting,
    title = "Supporting Online Discussions: Integrating {AI} Into the adhocracy+ Participation Platform To Enhance Deliberation",
    author = "Behrendt, Maike  and
      Wagner, Stefan Sylvius  and
      Warne, Mira  and
      Peters, Jana Leonie  and
      Ziegele, Marc  and
      Harmeling, Stefan",
    editor = "Blodgett, Su Lin  and
      Curry, Amanda Cercas  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Siyan  and
      Madaio, Michael  and
      Wang, Jack  and
      Wu, Sherry Tongshuang  and
      Xiao, Ziang  and
      Yang, Diyi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.hcinlp-1.2/",
    pages = "7--16",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-353-1",
    abstract = "Online spaces provide individuals with the opportunity to engage in discussions on important topics and make collective decisions, regardless of their geographic location or time zone. However, without adequate support and careful design, such discussions often suffer from a lack of structure and civility in the exchange of opinions. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a promising avenue for helping both participants and organizers in managing large-scale online participation processes. This paper introduces an extension of adhocracy+, a large-scale open-source participation platform. Our extension features two AI-supported debate modules designed to improve discussion quality and foster participant interaction.In a large-scale user study we examined the effects and usability of both modules. We report our findings in this paper. The extended platform is available at https://github.com/mabehrendt/discuss2.0."
}