Brian Plüss

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Brian is a Lecturer in Computing and Interim Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Student Recruitment) at the School of Science and Engineering. He works on applications of argument technologies and analytics to enhance everyday communication. His research combines computational linguistics, manual and automatic analyses of dialogue and argumentation, data analytics and interactive visualisations, with a special interest on applications in political communication (e.g. political interviews, election debates, public deliberations). Brian was also part of the ADD-up project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation under the Computational Social Sciences initiative, in which he focused on deploying complex analytics to members of the public in real time.