Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts

COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 327-335

  Thomas, Matt ^a   Pang, Bo ^a   Lee, Lillian ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FLOORS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053357527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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