Value-Sensitive Disagreement Analysis for Online Deliberation
Michiel Van Der Meer (Universiteit Leiden)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
C.M. Jonker (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)
Pradeep Murukannaiah (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)
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Abstract
Disagreements are common in online societal deliberation and may be crucial for effective collaboration, for instance in helping users understand opposing viewpoints. Although there exist automated methods for recognizing disagreement, a deeper understanding of factors that influence disagreement is currently missing. We investigate a hypothesis that differences in personal values influence disagreement in online discussions. Using Large Language Models (LLMs) for estimating both profiles of personal values and disagreement, we conduct a large-scale experiment involving 11.4M user comments. We find that the dissimilarity of value profiles correlates with disagreement only in specific cases, but that incorporating self-reported value profiles changes these results to be more undecided.
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