Many Bills: Engaging citizens through visualizations of congressional legislation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 433-442

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

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Government; Government transparency; Information visualization; Legislation; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEDERAL LEGISLATIONS; GENERAL PUBLICS; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SECTION-BASED; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; VISUALIZATION TOOLS; WEB BASED;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79958154700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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