A Corpus of German Citizen Contributions in Mobility Planning: Supporting Evaluation Through Multidimensional Classification (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Political authorities in democratic countries consult the public in order to allow citizens to voice their ideas and concerns on specific issues. |
| Approach: | They propose a publicly-available corpus that includes citizen contributions from six mobility-related planning processes in five german municipalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus includes several thousand citizen contributions from six mobility-related planning processes in five German municipalities. |
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