Analysis of public discussion in participatory planning process

Abstract

This study proposes the method of quantitative analysis on discussion in workshop for proper operation of discussion. It also shows the characteristics and the roles of discussion in workshop in planning process. There is a perception gap about policy issues of the region between planners who set up a workshop, and participants. The objectives of this study are to make clear its gap quantitatively, and to establish a management solution for minimizing them. This study provides quantitative analysis of a content of discussion to make participant's concern clear. The efficacy of this method is also discussed.

Dialogue Analysis Using a Text Mining Approach: Case Study of Hirono Town

“…For example, Jeong et al (2007Jeong et al ( , 2008 proposed a methodology to investigate objectively the level of discourse similarity and interest dissonance among participants in public debates, by using discourse analysis based on corpus semantics. Chosokabe et al (2012) proposed a methodology based on text mining for conducting quantitative analysis of workshop discussions. They also evaluated the priority to adapt opinions from the social context perspective, such as using newspaper articles (Chosokabe et al, 2016).…”