Detecting outlier sections in US congressional legislation

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-244

  Aktolga, Elif ^a   Ros, Irene ^b   Assogba, Yannick ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity; Language modeling; Outlier detection

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MODELING LANGUAGES; STATISTICS;

DISSIMILARITY; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; LANGUAGE MODEL; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OUTLIER DETECTION; WEB-BASED VISUALIZATION;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 80052128571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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