What you say is who you are: how open government data facilitates profiling politicians

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • S. Auer
  • J. Gray
  • C. Müller-Birn
  • R. Pollock
  • S.W. Gray
Book title Proceedings 5th Open Knowledge Conference, London 2010 (OKCon 2010)
Event 5th Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon 2010), London, UK
Pages (from-to) 22-28
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract A system is proposed and implemented that creates a language model for each member of the Dutch parliament, based on the official transcripts of the meetings of the Dutch Parliament. Using expert finding techniques, the system allows users to retrieve a ranked list of politicians, based on queries like news messages.
The high quality of the system is due to extensive data cleaning and transformation which could have been avoided when it had been available in an open machine readable format.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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