Public sector institutions that consult citizens to inform decision-making face the challenge of
evaluating the contributions made by citizens. This evaluation has important democratic …

We investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of US Congressional floor
debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. To …

Large‐scale e‐mail campaigns are a staple in the modern environmental movement.
Interest groups increasingly use online mobilizations as a way to raise awareness, money …

Users of digital libraries usually want to know the exact author or authors of an article. But
different authors may share the same names, either as full names or as initials and last …

Annotated data is an important resource for the linguistics community, which is why
researchers need to be sure that such data are reliable. However, arriving at sufficiently …

Government agencies must often quickly organize and analyze large amounts of textual
information, for example comments received as part of notice and comment rulemaking …

Proponents of electronic rulemaking proposals designed to enhance ordinary citizens'
involvement in the rulemaking process have debated with skeptics the question of whether …

For the task of near-duplicated document detection, both traditional fingerprinting techniques
used in database community and bag-of-word comparison approaches used in information …

For social science researchers, content analysis and classification of United States
Congressional legislative activities have been time consuming and costly. The Library of …

To understand the subjective documents, for example, public comments on the
government's proposed regulation, opinion identification and classification is required …