|
New Videos: Download
a brief video demonstrating the DURIAN solution for mass email campaigns (.avi
version)[24 MB]
or (iPhone
version)
[7MB]
or download a second video demonstrating the
Coding
Analysis Toolkit solution for sorting public comments (.avi
version) [62MB]
or
(iPhone
version)
[18 MB].
Tools-for-Rules: Use our
Tools-for-Rules to review the
271,324 e-mailed public comments received by the US Fish & Wildlife
Service on "Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain
Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing
This Distinct Population Segment From the Federal List of Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife".
In the News:
"Algorithmically Yours" - Science &
"Constituents' E-Mail..." -
Washington Post.
On the Airwaves: An
extended
interview on WGDR about mass e-mail campaigns.
Recent Publication:
"Democracy and
E-Rulemaking," Schlosberg, Zavestoski & Shulman
dg.o 2008: "Ontology Collection for Large E-mail
Collections," Yang & Callan.
dg.o 2007:
"Identifying and
Classifying Subjective Claims," Kwon et al.,
"A Bootstrapping Approach for Identifying
Stakeholders in Public-Comment Corpora," Arguello & Callan.
dg.o 2006:
"Multidimensional Text
Analysis for eRulemaking," Kwon, Shulman & Hovy, "Next
Steps in Near Duplicate Detection for eRulemaking," Yang, Callan & Shulman.
dg.o 2006 Whitepaper Collection: A collection of White Papers
produced for a workshop on
"eRulemaking at the
Crossroads" at dg.o 2006.
Stakeholder Report (2004):
"The Internet Still Might (but
Probably Won't) Change Everything," prepared based on three days of
focus groups with a wide range of public and private participants in US
federal rulemaking.
Just for Fun: Check out a
'Wordle' visualization
based on public comments about the polar bears. |
This
research project was initiated during the fall 1999 semester and the content on this website
was made possible with the following grants from the
National Science Foundation: III-0705566
"Collaborative Research III-COR: From a Pile of Documents to a Collection of
Information: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Text Analysis," IIS-0429293
“Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic
Rulemaking," EIA-00328914 “SGER COLLABORATIVE: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data,”
SES-0322662 “Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Comparing Traditional vs. Electronic
Comment from a Discursive Democratic Framework,“ and EIA-0089892 “SGER: Citizen
Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of
Public Commentary.” We are also grateful for financial support from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Any
opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material
are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the National
Science Foundation.
|
