Exploiting Open Data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation

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Highlights：

• We present an Open Data approach to process and enrich citizen-generated content.

• We propose a novel controversy metric for conversation threads.

• We present an in-depth analysis of citizen discussion in an e-participatory platform.

• We provide a large dataset of semantically annotated citizen proposals and debates.

摘要

•We present an Open Data approach to process and enrich citizen-generated content.•We propose a novel controversy metric for conversation threads.•We present an in-depth analysis of citizen discussion in an e-participatory platform.•We provide a large dataset of semantically annotated citizen proposals and debates.

论文关键词：Citizen participation,e-participation,Online discussion,Controversy,Opinion polarization,Open Data

论文评审过程：Received 5 November 2019, Revised 13 April 2020, Accepted 9 May 2020, Available online 25 May 2020, Version of Record 25 May 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102301