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Psst: a web-based system for tracking political statements

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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.

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WWW '08: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
April 2008
1326 pages
ISBN:9781605580852
DOI:10.1145/1367497
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