An experiment in e-rulemaking with natural language processing and democratic deliberation

Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-40

  Muhlberger, Peter ^a   Stromer Galley, Jenny ^b   Webb, Nick ^c  

^a Texas Tech Universitys   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84898245535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0318-9.ch002     Document Type: Chapter

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