We’re excited to announce that Debela Gemechu and Kamila Gorska this month become the first employees of ARG-tech’s commercial arm, Arg Technica Ltd.
The start of 2025 sees our work ramp up on the new Horizon EU Project AI4Deliberation. The project aims to deliver robust and ethical AI tools alongside detailed guidance to support governments in institutionalising, implementing, and evaluating multimodal, gamified, large-scale deliberative processes. The project’s vision is to empower governments with a well-founded and empirically validated suite of AI-enabled deliberative practices, including a comprehensive framework with practical guidelines and an AI toolkit designed to help governments create, establish, manage, and assess mass deliberations.
ARG-tech’s involvement in AI4Deliberation will build on our 15 year track record in argument mining, reason checking and public deliberation, to deliver state-of-the-art techniques for assessing, improving and facilitating large scale deliberative debates. This work will be lead by Dr. John Lawrence.
AI4Deliberation is a three-year project bringing together 12 partner institutions from 8 countries: Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland. More information is available on the project website or on the project’s X feed.
We’re happy to announce that Alina Littek joins our team this week as a PhD student. She holds Master’s degrees from both Uppsala University and National Taiwan Normal University, where she explored innovative approaches to applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems. Welcome Alina!
The summer of 2024 has been a good one for people working in ARG-tech. First of all, both John and Jacky were promoted to Senior Lecturer (roughly equivalent to Associate Professor), reflecting the growth in their research portfolio and international profile. Shortly afterwards, we heard that Brian has been appointed Associate Dean for Student Recruitment & Global Partnerships reflecting his commitment to operations and recruitment overseas across the entire School of Science and Engineering. Finally for her outstanding dedication to research over the past year, Eimear has, uniquely in the School, been awarded accelerated advancement in her postdoctoral role. Many, many congratulations to Eimear, Brian, Jacky and John.
