Can Text Simplification Help to Increase the Acceptance of E-participation?

Regina Stodden, Phillip Nguyen


Abstract
This study investigated the effect of text simplification (with and without artificial intelligence support) and the role of participants (author or reader) on the acceptance of e-participation processes. Therefore, a near-realistic experimental study with 276 participants was conducted simulating a participatory budgeting process. The results of our study show, on the one hand, that text simplification and the role of participants has no direct influence on the intention to use e-participation. Although a higher level of participation cannot be achieved by text simplification, our results also show that no negative consequences for usage intention can be expected from text simplification. On the other hand, the results show that people with reading and writing difficulties prefer text simplification for proposals in e-participation.
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2024.delite-1.3
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Annette Hautli-Janisz, Gabriella Lapesa, Lucas Anastasiou, Valentin Gold, Anna De Liddo, Chris Reed
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DELITE
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20–32
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Regina Stodden and Phillip Nguyen. 2024. Can Text Simplification Help to Increase the Acceptance of E-participation?. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 20–32, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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