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Digital Incivility in Political Deliberation: The Case of the Chilean Constitutional Convention

In the framework of the Digital Democracy Workshop 2024, held at the University of Zurich, two associate researchers from the Training Data Lab, Bastián González-Bustamante and Sebastián Rivera, presented a relevant study on digital incivility in political deliberation. In their paper entitled, “Toxicity and Digital Incivility during Political Deliberation: The Case of the Constitutional Convention in Chile”, these researchers explore the magnitude and determinants of non-civil comments directed towards politicians, focusing on the Chilean context.

October 28, 2024 3 min read
Digital Incivility in Political Deliberation: The Case of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
Update: Our AI models have evolved

Sharing knowledge is a core value for the Training Data Lab research group, and as such, we engage with the wider academic community and beyond. Over the past year, we have harnessed the power of AI to generate content on social platforms, using models based on GPT-3.5.

October 15, 2024 2 min read
Update: Our AI models have evolved
A holistic perspective: Canadian experience and public policies for Indigenous peoples

In a significant meeting between academics and Mapuche leaders, the “Conversatorio sobre Derecho Indígena, Canadá y Chile” was held in Osorno, Chile, on 25 September. This event, organised by the Universidad de Los Lagos, provided an invaluable platform to discuss crucial issues related to indigenous rights and public policies affecting indigenous peoples in both countries.

September 27, 2024 2 min read
A holistic perspective: Canadian experience and public policies for Indigenous peoples
Identifying toxicity in the digital sphere: Bastián González-Bustamante presents his work at the 8th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop

In a world where social media is increasingly ubiquitous, the ability to identify and understand online toxicity and incivility is crucial for democracy and civil society. In this sense, the project “Large Language Models (LLMs) to Identify Toxicity in the Digital Sphere during Protest Events in Latin America” seeks to develop technologies to detect and analyse toxicity in social networks during protest events in Latin America.

September 17, 2024 2 min read
Identifying toxicity in the digital sphere: Bastián González-Bustamante presents his work at the 8th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop
A shift in our communications strategy with open source LLMs

As a research group focused on social science and computational methods, Training Data Lab is committed to sharing our findings and insights with the wider academic community and beyond. Over the past year, we have harnessed the power of AI to generate content for Twitter, using GPT-3.5 to create engaging posts that resonated with our audience.

August 30, 2024 3 min read
A shift in our communications strategy with open source LLMs
Training Data Lab participates in the XII Latin American Congress of Political Science

From 17 to 20 July 2024, our research group, Training Data Lab, had the honour of participating in the XII Latin American Congress of Political Science, entitled “América Latina como actor en la configuración geopolítica global,” held in Lisbon, Portugal. Our research associates presented three papers reflecting our political science and methodology research.

July 25, 2024 3 min read
Training Data Lab participates in the XII Latin American Congress of Political Science
Research on the analysis of interaction with news on social networks presented at conference in Valencia

Between 15 and 17 May, our researchers Bastián González-Bustamante and Carla Cisternas, in collaboration with Ximena Orchard, presented a paper entitled “Amplification, contestation, and hostile engagement with news in social media” at the conference Medios de Gobernanza en América Latina, España y Portugal, held in Valencia and also online.

May 27, 2024 3 min read
Research on the analysis of interaction with news on social networks presented at conference in Valencia
Bastián González-Bustamante presents two pioneering papers on the rule of law at the 2024 COMPTEXT conference

At the COMPTEXT 2024 conference, which took place from 2 to 4 May at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, our research associate Bastián González-Bustamante presented two innovative papers related to a project funded by the Dutch Research Council.

May 10, 2024 3 min read
Bastián González-Bustamante presents two pioneering papers on the rule of law at the 2024 COMPTEXT conference
Unlocking the potential of deep learning models with Raspberry Pi 5

At Training Data Lab, we focus on developing innovative solutions that combine the power of deep learning and energy efficiency. We recently decided to use Raspberry Pi 5 to deploy deep learning and language models such as LLaMA and Mistral for our research projects. This text will explain how this choice will allow us to reduce costs and carbon footprint associated with cloud computing.

December 19, 2023 3 min read
Unlocking the potential of deep learning models with Raspberry Pi 5
Four decades of the third wave of democratisation in Latin America: Contributions from the Training Data Lab

On 27-28 November 2023, researchers from the Training Data Lab participated in the conference “Four decades of the third democratisation wave in Latin America” at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. During this event, our researchers presented three papers addressing different aspects related to democratisation and democratic destabilisation in the region.

December 1, 2023 4 min read
Four decades of the third wave of democratisation in Latin America: Contributions from the Training Data Lab