Can natural language processing and machine learning technologies foster quicker political response to citizen views on digital democracy platforms? With the Nesta Collective Intelligence Grants Programme, this is the central question we will be researching over the coming months. In many citizen participation projects, the main challenge isn’t to gather...
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This article has been written in close collaboration with the NLP experts at NLP Town, who supported us through our own NLP journey. Will robots take over the world? Probably not. However, NLP (or Natural Language Processing) already has. In recent years, a technology that was hesitant at best has...
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Citizen participation may be hot and happening right now, but it’s not a new phenomenon. Besides heading to the ballot box every few years, citizens have been showing up to town hall gatherings or collecting signatures since the birth of modern democracy. Offline vs. online participation The rise of the...
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