Populating an Online Consultation Tool

The paper addresses the extraction, formalisation, and presentation of public policy arguments. Arguments are extracted from documents that comment on public policy proposals. Formalising the information from the arguments en- ables the construction of models and systematic analysis of the arguments. In addi- tion, the arguments are represented in a form suitable for presentation in an online consultation tool. Thus, the forms in the consultation correlate with the formalisa- tion and can be evaluated accordingly. The stages of the process are outlined with reference to a working example.