Protótipo de rede social focada em debates: ArgViewer

Abstract

The number of people connected to the Internet is increasing, as is the number of interactions between them. But virtual (and even face-to-face) discussions and debates are still not very effective and/or efficient. Dialectics is one of the oldest and most effective ways to generate reflection and knowledge, but current technologies and social networks have only increased the quantity of dialogue, leaving quality aside. Therefore, this work sought to create a prototype of a social network for debates, trying to use the available technologies to optimize the debate process. The methodology of the work is a case study, and the software development process followed the 5 basic activities of software engineering: communication, planning, modeling, construction and deployment. In the modeling stage, the analysis was done focusing on use cases and the software design followed the domain-driven design (DDD). The system created seeks to organize the debate clearly and simply, through brief propositions that relate as pros or cons to each other. A crowdsourcing voting system is used to evaluate the veracity and relevance of the propositions. In addition, a semantically similar propositions filter (implemented by a machine learning transformer model) is used to decrease the number of repeated contributions. And an offense filter with SVM model is used to prevent the creation of inappropriate contributions. The application was implemented with Java Spring Boot and Python on the backend and React-Bootstrap on the frontend. Finished, the prototype created shows some possible strategies to try to create a social network of rational debate