Text Mining the U.S. Congressional Record

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Peter S. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
The U.S

The Story of Kim Chi Ha

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Harold Hakwon Sunoo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Prison Guards ◽  
The U.S

In a dark prison cell where he is probably awaiting a death sentence Kim Chi Ha, a noted Korean Catholic poet, has written a twelve thousand-word memorandum he calls “Declaration of Conscience.” The “Declaration” was smuggled out of the prison and the country, and recorded in the U.S. Congressional Record on October 22, 1975, through the efforts of Congressmen Donald M. Fraser of Minnesota and Frederick W. Richmond of New York. Since the smuggling incident of the “Declaration” took place, Kim Chi Ha has been confined in a cell surrounded by several empty cells in order to avoid any outside contact. It has also been reported that ten prison guards have been dismissed, that Kim is watched twenty-four hours a day through TV camera, and that no one is allowed to see him except assigned guards.

scholarly journals Using Ensemble Models to Classify the Sentiment Expressed in Suicide Notes

2012 ◽  
Vol 5s1 ◽  
pp. BII.S8931 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. McCart ◽  
Dezon K. Finch ◽  
Jay Jarman ◽  
Edward Hickling ◽  
Jason D. Lind ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Regular Expression ◽  
Shared Task ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The U.S

In 2007, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. Given the significance of this problem, suicide was the focus of the 2011 Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) Natural Language Processing (NLP) shared task competition (track two). Specifically, the challenge concentrated on sentiment analysis, predicting the presence or absence of 15 emotions (labels) simultaneously in a collection of suicide notes spanning over 70 years. Our team explored multiple approaches combining regular expression-based rules, statistical text mining (STM), and an approach that applies weights to text while accounting for multiple labels. Our best submission used an ensemble of both rules and STM models to achieve a micro-averaged F1 score of 0.5023, slightly above the mean from the 26 teams that competed (0.4875).

scholarly journals What does Congress want from the National Science Foundation? A content analysis of remarks from 1995 to 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (33) ◽  
pp. eaaz6300
Author(s):  
A. Lupia ◽  
S. Soroka ◽  
A. Beatty
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
National Science ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

The U.S. Congress writes the legislation that funds the National Science Foundation (NSF). Researchers who seek NSF support may benefit by understanding how Congress views the agency. To this end, we use text analysis to examine every statement in the Congressional Record made by any member of Congress about the NSF over a 22-year period. While we find broad bipartisan support for the NSF, there are notable changes over time. Republicans have become more likely to express concerns about accountability in how the NSF spends its funds. Democrats are more likely to focus on how NSF-funded activities affect education, technology, and students. We use these findings to articulate how researchers and scientific organizations can more effectively conduct transformative science that corresponds to long-term and broadly held Congressional priorities.

The U.S. Congressional Record as a technology of representation

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zornitsa Keremidchieva
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Congressional Debates ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Historical Controversies ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Argumentative Practice

Focusing on the historical controversies surrounding the development of the print records of the U.S. congressional debates, this essay explores how human, technological, and discursive agencies come together to constitute institutional argumentative practice. Examining the U.S. Congressional Record through the lens of Bruno Latour’s concept of dingpolitik reveals that as a technology of representation print records work less as mediators and more as agents of institutional contextualization. Print records do more than translate arguments from oral to written form or transfer arguments from the public sphere to the state. Rather, they assemble the disparate elements that constitute the terrains of governance, the character of political issues, and the norms of congressional deliberation. Hence, the material dynamics of congressional deliberation prompt not only a reconsideration of what and who is being represented by Congress, but also a methodological reorientation from normative to constitutive perspectives on institutional argumentation.

scholarly journals “Neglected, Ignored, and Abandoned”? The Working Class in Popular U.S. Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reeve Vanneman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Class Inclusion ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

This paper develops new text-mining methods to measure the recognition of American workers in the U.S. press and in American movies. The text-mining program searches 167,193 newspaper articles and 18,056 movie plots for over 35,000 job titles and codes them into standard U.S. Census occupational categories. These occupations are then recoded into common definitions of the working class and tracked over time. For The New York Times since 1980, recognition of working-class jobs has not declined, but it was always low. For regional American papers like the St. Louis Post Gazette, the Detroit News, or the Tampa Bay Times, working-class occupations had once enjoyed higher levels of recognition, but the rates have declined recently to levels similar to the New York Times. U.S. produced movies show a similar decline since 1930 in working-class inclusion.

The History of Modern Shipbuilding Methods: The U.S.-Japan Interchange

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
L. D. Chirillo ◽  
R. D. Chirillo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Merchant Marine ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

This paper was given as testimony during a 20 June 1984 hearing by the House Merchant Marine Subcommittee. Thus, the entire paper is part of the Congressional Record. The testimony relates a concise history of modern shipbuilding methods, a brief description of those methods, and prerequisites for modern shipbuilding to take hold in the United States.

scholarly journals We Need You! . . . To Become a Preservation Steward: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from the Nation’s First Preservation Steward

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kathryn Tallman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
Legislative History ◽  
Congressional Record ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

In October 2016, the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU Boulder) and the Government Publishing Office (GPO) signed the nation’s first Preservation Steward Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). CU Boulder, the Regional Federal Depository for the state of Colorado, has pledged to retain and preserve three large collections of legislative history: the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the bound Congressional Record, and Congressional Hearings. In turn, GPO will cover shipping costs to fill collection gaps and facilitate communication between CU Boulder and other libraries that plan to withdraw large runs of relevant documents. The purpose of this article is to provide a historical context for the Preservation Steward agreement, describe how CU Boulder implemented the MOA, and encourage other depository libraries to become Preservation Stewards.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

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