Mark S. Ackerman, Stephen Cotterill, and Kevin Nam, (2005) From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation:
The I-DIAG Research Project

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I went and read the longer paper on I-DIAG to find out more about the project. It's quite ambitious and I'm curious to see how it will fare in a real-world situation. I appreciate your emphasis on applying the technology to foster productive behaviour -- sometimes a nudge will do the trick where a hard rule can be too brittle.

Based on the longer paper it appears that CyberForum seen some limited use, but Consolidate hasn't been tested yet. The paper made me wish I had more detail about how Consolidate works and what kind of result it produces.

I understand the need to separately address discussants and moderators as two distinct user groups, but why did you decide to consider distillation a temporally disjoint process? Perhaps it would be interesting to see what would happen if moderators were provided with distillation tools whose output provides ongoing value to the discussants during the conversation.

-- KaPingYee


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