How can machine learning help researchers assess the quality of democratic deliberation? This working paper examines how the Discourse Quality Index (DQI), an established framework grounded in Habermasian deliberative theory, can be adapted for automated text analysis. Originally designed for human coding, the DQI relies on subtle linguistic and contextual distinctions that are difficult for<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How can machine learning help researchers assess the quality of democratic deliberation? This working paper examines how the Discourse Quality Index (DQI), an established framework grounded in Habermasian deliberative theory, can be adapted for automated text analysis. Originally designed for human coding, the DQI relies on subtle linguistic and contextual distinctions that are difficult for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gravitec_meta_box_implemented":[""],"send_gravitec_push":[""],"_aft_read_time":["1"],"gss_source_name":["CHANGECODE"],"gss_ca_code":["CA22149"],"gss_source_type":["COST Action"],"gss_source_url":["https:\/\/changecode.eu\/working-paper-no-10-september-2026toward-a-machine-learning-compatible-discourse-quality-index-a-conceptual-roadmap-and-empirical-stress-test-by-lukas-schutte\/"],"gss_original_date":["2026-09-18"],"gss_original_author":["Angelika Ergaver"],"gss_licence":[""],"gss_credit_line":[""],"gss_image_url":[""],"gss_display_mode":["excerpt"],"gss_oecd_field":[""],"gss_import_id":["u-a331c925ff5bf8679a49baf66a2a9b63"],"gss_imported_at":["2026-11-01 17:03:54"],"gss_source_id":["2159"],"gss_image_note":["No image found on the source"],"gss_approved_by":["7"],"gss_approved_at":["2026-11-02 08:26:10"],"_wp_old_date":["2026-11-01"],"gss_views":["4"],"_elementor_page_assets":["a:0:{}"]},"categories":[56],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cost-publications-outputs","tag-changecode"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2.png",1585,992,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-300x188.png",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-768x481.png",640,401,true],"large":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-1024x641.png",640,401,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-1536x961.png",1536,961,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2.png",1585,992,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-825x575.png",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-2-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"GSS News","author_link":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/author\/gss-news\/"},"category_info":"Publications & Outputs<\/a>","tag_info":"Publications & Outputs","comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gss.cost-action.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}