Entries by Arno Scharl

D2.3.2: Environmental Opinion Extraction (v2)

This deliverable provides a report to accompany the tools for environmental opinion mining delivered. Our web service provides tools to perform recognition of climate-related sentiment and opinions, including the distinction between the holder of the opinion (e.g. a particular scientist) and the opinion target (what the opinion is about, e.g. fracking). The deliverable describes the […]

D2.3.1: Environmental Opinion Extraction

This deliverable provides a report to accompany the web service for environmental opinion mining delivered. The web service provides tools to perform recognition of climate-related sentiment and opinions, including the distinction between the holder of the opinion (e.g. a particular scientist) and the opinion target (what the opinion is about, e.g. fracking). Read the Deliverable

D2.2.2: Text Analytics Tools for Environmental Information Extraction v.2

This deliverable provides a report to accompany the tools for environmental information extraction delivered. The tools are enabled as web services which perform entity disambiguation, recognition of environmental terms in English and German. Open source versions of the tools and demos are available. DecarboNet-D2.2.2 Report LATEST TWEETS

Media Watch on Climate Change

The Media Watch on Climate Change (MWCC) is a visual analytics and knowledge co-creation environment developed in WP3 of DecarboNet. It allows users to track and discuss emerging trends in the public dialog, and to better understand the social perceptions of environmental topics. The Web portal is publicly accessible at www.ecoresearch.net/climate, providing access to a continuously updated archive […]

EnergyUse

EnergyUse is Decarbonet online community for sharing real-life experiences on the energy consumption of typical appliances, for energy experts or not! The electricity monitors provided by Green Energy Options can be a powerful instrument to transform everyone into an energy expert. By installing them, people can compare the consumption of similar appliances, test different settings to […]

Social Media Application (D3.1)

The Climate Challenge, a social media application available at www.ecoresearch.net/climate-challenge, aims to provide an engaging way to help people learn more about Earth’s climate, test their climate knowledge against others’, and promote the adoption of sustainable lifestyle choices. Measuring the distribution of opinions among citizens in a monthly prediction task, for example, will shed light on […]

Analyzing the Digital Talk – TEDx Presentation

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to spark deep discussion and connection. TEDxModulUniversity was an independently organized TED event and the first of its kind held at a university in Vienna, hosted and organized by a young and passionate team of volunteers. […]

Content Acquisition Services

The extensible Web Retrieval Toolkit (eWRT) has been extended via the DecarboNet project to support the consortium in various data collection tasks. In addition to retrieving data from social networks (like Facebook or Twitter), it provides helper classes for effective caching and data management. Start by downloading the latest version from Github and by reading the documentation at Read The […]

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing Platform (D3.2.1, D3.2.2)

The Collective Awareness Platform of DecarboNet aims to empower citizens, help translate awareness into behavioural change, and provide analytical and visual methods to understand the processes that underlie this behavioural change. This document summarizes the output of WP3 including the Tasks 3.2: Co-Creation and Visualisation of Knowledge and 3.3: System Integration. The visual analytics and […]