@inproceedings{pub4370,
    abstract = {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.},
    month = {6},
    year = {2009},
    title = {Recognizing Creative Thinking in Graphical e-Discussions using Artificial Intelligence Graph-Matching Techniques},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL-09), June 8-13, Rhodes, Greece},
    note = {RB=yes},
    publisher = {CSCL},
    author = {R. Wegerif and Bruce McLaren and M. Chamrada and Oliver Scheuer and N. Mansour and Jan Miksatko},
    url = {http://www.dfki.de/web/kompetenz/ccel/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=CSCL2009_argunautshortpaper_D2.pdf&file_id=uploads_375}
}