Psst: a web-based system for tracking political statements

  • Authors:

  • Samantha Kleinberg;Bud Mishra

  • Affiliations:

  • New York University, New York, NY, USA;New York University, New York, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

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.