Psst: a web-based system for tracking political statements

Determining candidates' views on important issues is critical in deciding whom to support and vote for; but finding their statements and votes on an issue can be laborious. In this paper we present PSST, (Political Statement and Support Tracker), a search engine to facilitate analysis of political statements and votes over time. We show that prior tools for text analysis can be combined with minimal manual processing to provide a first step in the full automation of this process. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval; J.4 [Computer Applications ]: Social and Behavioral Sciences General Terms Algorithms

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Samantha Kleinberg, Bud Mishra
• Keywords: General Terms Algorithms, Internet Technology, Minimal Manual Processing, Political Statements, WWW 2008