Agenda: A tool for agenda setting research

Authors:
Yeong Haur Kok;Angela Goh;Duncan Holaday
Affiliations:
Division of Software Systems, School of Applied Science, Blk N4-2B-50, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore;Division of Software Systems, School of Applied Science, Blk N4-2B-50, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore (Corresponding author. E-mail: asesgoh@ ntu.edu.sg);Division of Communication Research, School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Venue:
Information Services and Use
Year:
1999

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Abstract

The paper describes the development of a software tool named Agenda to aid researchers in studying the correlation between the media and public agenda. Agenda processes news articles and forms clusters of topically coherent groupings. The use of clustering algorithms in document processing is therefore a key feature of the tool. In addition, the results are visualized to aid researchers in studying the data from different perspectives. Evaluation was carried out by comparing of the results produced by Agenda with that obtained using an Intelligent Readers’ method involving human coders. Findings show that the results for the two methods are comparable, thereby highlighting the potential use of the tool.