DocBlocks: Communication-minded visualization of topics in U.S. congressional bills

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4117-4122

  Assogba, Yannick ^a   Ros, Irene ^a   McKeon, Matt ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Government; Information visualization; Legislation; Social software; Text classification; Web

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; COMMUNICATION-MINDED VISUALIZATION; FEDERAL LEGISLATIONS; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TOPIC STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 77953106058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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