Automatic Bill Recommendation for Statehouse Journalists

Authorship
Michelle Perkonigg and Foaad Khosmood
Publication
Electronic Government
Conference
Abstract
AI4Reporters is a project designed to produce automated electronic tip sheets for news reporters covering the statehouses (state level legislatures) in the United States. The project aims to capture the most important information that occurred in a bill discussion to allow reporters to quickly decide if they want to pursue a story on the subject. In this paper, we present, discuss and evaluate a module for the tip sheets that is designed to recommend additional bills to investigate for the reporter that receives the tip sheet.