Research
Literature and references supporting OFL development.
Key Papers
| Paper | Authors | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| WHoW Framework | Chen, Frermann & Lau (2024) | Moderation analysis across domains |
| Fora Corpus | Schroeder, Roy & Kabbara (2024) | Facilitated dialogue corpus & framework |
| D-agree: Agent Facilitates Crowd | Ito, Hadfi & Suzuki (2022) | Automated facilitation agent at scale |
| Facilitation in the AI Era | Jigsaw/Google (2025) | Ethnographic study of 22 expert facilitators |
| Bringing Everyone to the Table | (2025) | LLM vs human facilitation experiment |
| Cueing the Crowd | Rayan et al. (2025) | LLM conversational cues for brainstorming |
| Evaluation & Facilitation Survey | Korre et al. (2025) | Comprehensive LLM facilitation survey |
| Generative Social Choice | Fish et al. (2025) | LLM-augmented democratic processes |
Research Topics
- Facilitation Techniques - Taxonomy of facilitative moves and their effects
- Deliberative Mini-Publics - Research on citizen deliberation forums
- AI Moderation & Chatbots - Automated facilitation research
- Storytelling in Deliberation - Role of personal narratives
Key Datasets
| Dataset | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fora | MIT CCC | 262 facilitated dialogues, 39,911 turns |
| ConvoKit Datasets | Cornell | 30+ conversational corpora (deliberation, debate, negotiation, derailment) |
| EuroPolis | Gerber et al. | European deliberative poll transcripts |
| WHoW Dataset | U. Melbourne | 5,657 human + 15,494 GPT-4o annotated sentences |
Collaborations
- Oxford Computational Political Science Group
- Cooperative AI Fellowship
- Metagov Interoperable Deliberative Tools Programme
- MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Resources
- OFL Substack publications
- GitHub repositories