Case-based reasoning
Extensionally defining principles and cases in ethics: an AI model
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on AI and law
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Analyze and Support Mediation of Student E-Discussions
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work
Computer supported moderation of e-discussions: the ARGUNAUT approach
CSCL'07 Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning
CSCL'07 Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning
Exploring creative thinking in graphically mediated synchronous dialogues
Computers & Education
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Many approaches to analyzing online argumentation focus on explicit reasoning and overlook the creative emergence of new ideas. The value of a dialogic analytic framework including creative emergence was tested through applying it to the coding and analysis of undergraduate synchronous e-discussions using a graphical interface within the EU funded project ARGUNAUT. Qualitative analysis found that critical reasoning functioned to 'deepen' the graph through unpacking assumptions whilst creative emergence of new perspectives produced 'widening' moves. This distinction between deepening and widening was successfully used as the basis for an artificial intelligence (AI) graph-matching algorithm. Given examples of deepening and widening from real e-discussions, the AI algorithm was able to successfully find other occurrences of such moves within new e-discussions. This supports our claim to distinguish between these two aspects of shared thinking and has the potential to provide awareness indicators as a support for e-moderation.