Doctoral Candidate at FBK
Siddharth Bhargava
DC 3 at FBK
With a demonstrated history of working in Data Science and AI, Siddharth is currently involved in discourse analysis and argumentation studies.
Having received his B.Tech in Computer Science at VIT Vellore India and M.Sc. in Data Science at LMU Munich Germany, Siddharth has worked as a research student during his Master’s program wherein he developed a deep passion for the fields of discourse analysis and argumentation. He actively participates in various tech and Artificial Intelligence events, looking for opportunities to connect and exchange ideas with people from around the world. If not caught solving data challenges, you can find him in the kitchen, fitness training, or travelling. Siddharth, as a MSCA fellow, hopes to become a strong voice for advocating open and fair data science practices, particularly in social sciences. His living philosophy is, “If you have the will, you will find the way.”
DC3 Individual Project
Identifying the stance of argumentative opinions in the political discourse
Research Objectives:
Opinion Alignment Identification
To automatically identify whether a given opinion supports and idea or contradicts it.
Europe Political Argument Detection via Ontological Analysis
To design a method to detect pro and con arguments given a controversial idea related to political issues in Europa, by using ontological information linked to argumentation information.
Social Media Political Stance Detection
To apply the method for the detection of political stances in social media.
Expected Results:
Argument Extraction Tool
Development of a tool to extract arguments (excerpts that holds argumentative opinions).
Stance Classification Model
Development of a classifier to identify the stance of the given arguments/opinions.
European Political Controversies Dataset
A large dataset of pro and con arguments for different controversial political issues in Europe.
Immigration and Euroscepticism Case Studies
Use cases on immigration and Euroscepticism.
Supervisors
In our pursuit of academic excellence, HYBRIDS Doctoral Candidates are guided by a dedicated team of supervisors. Comprising the Main Supervisor, Co-Supervisor, and Inter-sectoral Supervisor, this team of professionals offers a wealth of knowledge, mentorship, and interdisciplinary insights.
Main Supervisor
Dr. Sara Tonelli
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Co-Supervisor
Dr. Patricia Martín
Universidad de A Coruña (UDC)
Inter-sectoral Supervisors
Mr. Guglielmo Celata
Fondazione OPENPOLIS.
Ms. Stephanie Öttl
Industrieanlagen- Betriebsgesellschaft (IABG)
