Tools

• run-svm-text.pl -- The update to run-svm.pl
• Congressional Bills Corpus Page
• Policy Agenda Classifier
• run-svm.pl -- A multiclass control script for SVM-light which builds features from text.

Papers, Posters, and Presentations

• Purpura, S., Wilkerson, J., Hillard, D. "The U.S. Policy Agenda Legislation Corpus Volume 1 - a Language Resource from 1947 - 1998". The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco. (poster)
  
  
• Bruce, T., Cardie, C., Farina, C., Purpura, S. "Facilitating Issue Categorization & Analysis in Rulemaking." e-Government Workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.
  
  
• Visiting Course Lecture, Cornell University. CS 431 & 631, INFO 431 & 631 -- "Open Source / Open Standards". April 4, 2008. Accompanying slides.
  
  Recommended Reading:
  • J. Spolsky, “Martian Headsets,” Joel on Software, March 30, 2008 2008; .
  • B. Sutor, “Open Standards vs. Open Source,” Striking the Right Chord, If You Can Find It, March 30, 2008 2006;
  • Y. Benkler, The Wealth of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, 2006. Chapters 1,2
  • Raymond, Eric. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". 1998.
    
    
• Purpura, S., Cardie, C. Simons, J. “Active Learning for e-Rulemaking: Public Comment Categorization." Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.
  
  
• Cardie, C., Farina, C., Aijaz, A., Rawding, M., Purpura, S. "A Study in Rule-Specific Issue Categorization for e-Rulemaking" Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.
  
  
• Pre-publication version: Hillard, D. Purpura, S. Wilkerson, J. "Computer Assisted Topic Classification for Mixed Methods Social Science Research". Journal of Information Technology and Politics 4:4.
  
  
• My lecture scribe notes on:
  • pivoted document normalization
  • the Language Modeling approach to Information Retrieval
  • few factor representations (Latent Semantic Indexing)
    
    
• Keynote Speech: "Introduction to Supervised Learning in the Policy Agendas Project" presented at a 2007 Symposium on Policy Agenda Studies at Penn State University.
  
  
• Hillard, Purpura, and Wilkerson, 2007. "Computer Assisted Topic Classification for Mixed Methods Social Research". Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Science.
  
  
• Keynote Speech: "Supervised Learning in International Policy Agendas Projects" presented at a 2007 International Symposium on Policy Agenda Studies at the Hague, Netherlands.
  
  
• Purpura, Lazer, Esterling, Hillard, and Neblo, 2007. "Declaring Independence from the President in the 2006 Mid-term Elections". Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
  
  
• Hillard, Purpura, and Wilkerson, 2007. "An Active Learning Framework for Classifying Political Text". Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
  
  
• Coding Across the Disciplines: A Project Based Workshop on Manual Text Annotation Techniques. November, 2006 NSF sponsored workshop to facilitate the creation of annotation science.
  
  
• Poster at POLMETH 2006 (Political Methodology) at U.C. Davis.
  
  
• The Congressional Bills Project
  
  
• Purpura, S., Hillard D. “Automated Classification of Congressional Legislation." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Digital Government Research. San Diego, CA.
  
  
• Class paper on analysis of narrowcasting in the 2004 Presidential election using structured learning with SVMs to analyze political communication: "A Comparative Study of Human Coding and Context Analysis against Support Vector Machines to Differentiate Campaign Emails by Party and Issues ".