D2.3.2: Environmental Opinion Extraction (v2)

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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 second version of the tools, building on the initial version described in D2.3.1.

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D2.3.1: Environmental Opinion Extraction

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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).

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

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Social Media Application (D3.1)

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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 collective awareness processes and represents a first step in harnessing and focusing the wisdom of the crowd in ways that benefit society – such as when making tough choices in the face of a high degree of uncertainty.

To ensure compatibility with a wide range of platforms, T3.1 has chosen a generic HTML5 approach to address desktop and mobile users alike. The game uses a flexible authentication framework that supports a direct user registration or logins via existing Facebook, Twitter or Google accounts.

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

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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 knowledge co-creation environment of WP3 allows users to track and discuss emerging trends in the public dialog, and to better understand the social perceptions of environmental topics. It builds on the Media Watch on Climate Change (MWCC), a Web portal publicly accessible at www.ecoresearch.net/climate that aggregates environmental communication to investigate common patterns in the public climate and energy debate. The portal’s analytical portfolio not only provides customized information services for citizens, but also important insights for policy makers, NGOs and other environmental stakeholders.

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D4.3: Algorithms for Tracking Information Diffusion Patterns

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This document summarizes outcomes of work performed on identifying opinion leaders and prevalent dissemination paths across news and social media content streams. We report on both the required preprocessing and knowledge extraction steps as well as on the analytic methods developed to investigate information diffusion processes.

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D4.2: Algorithms for Categorising and Predicting User Behaviour

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This deliverable summarises the efforts of the DecarboNet project on identifying and analysing user behaviour towards the environment.

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D5.3.1: Use Case 1 – Evaluation Report v1

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This first use-case evaluation report sheds light on the Energy Trial; an initiative to engage people with energy savings by distributing energy monitors and providing recommendations to reduce carbon emissions.

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D 6.3.1 Use Case 2 Evaluation Report v1

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This is the first of two deliverables aimed at reporting the work and outcome of Use Case 2: Large-scale awareness campaigns (use case 2). This deliverable summarises the impact of the project in terms of users researched, active collaborations with stakeholders and observed behavioural changes related to the goals of DecarboNet and the themes of the Earth Hour campaign. We report in this deliverable the different events in which users and communities have been engaged face to face as well as the series of experiments in which user behaviour and engagement have been studied in the context of the Earth Hour campaign.

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D6.2.2: Earth Hour Report 2015

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This deliverable summarizes the campaign activities of WWF Switzerland and DecarboNet for the Earth Hour 2015 campaign.

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