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Electoral search using the VerkiezingsKijker: an experience report

Published: 08 May 2007 Publication History

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The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on November 22, 2006. We built a system which helped voters to make an informed choice among the many participating parties. One of the most important pieces of information in the Dutch election and subsequent coalition government formation is the party program, a text document with an average length of 45 pages. Our system provides the voter with focused access to party programs, enabling her to make a topic-wise comparison of parties' viewpoints. We complemented this type of access ("What do the parties promise?") with access to news ("What happens around these topics?") and blogs ("What do people say about them?"). We describe the system, including design technical details, and user statistics.

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F. van Waveren. Extracting and classifying election-related news items from the world wide web. Master's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2006.

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      WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
      May 2007
      1382 pages
      ISBN:9781595936547
      DOI:10.1145/1242572
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      1. democracy
      2. domain specific search
      3. elections

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