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3D visualization of legislative relationships

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:24:31 +0000

3D visualization of legislative relationships

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 18:24

Authorship

Alexander Ehm, Gudrun Socher and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

Delft, Netherlands

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

Government relationships can be complex and difficult to understand. The relationships between members of a legislature, bills, votes and lobbyists who promote various causes are important to understand in representative democracies, but difficult to retrieve using current methods. In this paper, we propose a 3D visualization system to explore such legislative relationships for users. We use real data from California state legislature obtained from the Digital Democracy project.

Visualization Poster DGO 2018.pdf

Multimodal speaker identification in legislative discourse

foaad — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:10:03 +0000

Multimodal speaker identification in legislative discourse foaad Sat, 08/13/2022 - 20:10

Authorship

Daniel Kauffman, Michael Williams, Calin Washington, Gudrun Socher, and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age

Conference

Location

Delft, Netherlands

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

A first-of-its-kind platform, Digital Democracy1 offers a searchable archive of all statements made in US state legislative hearings in four American states (California, New York, Texas and Florida) covering one third of the US population. The purpose of the platform is to increase government transparency in state legislatures. It allows citizens to follow state lawmakers, lobbyists, and advocates as they debate, craft, and vote on policy proposals. State hearings in the U.S. are typically recorded on video and broadcast on cable TV stations, but they are not transcribed or indexed.

Digital Democracy Project: Making Government More Transparent one Video at a Time

foaad — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 05:44:33 +0000

Digital Democracy Project: Making Government More Transparent one Video at a Time

foaad Fri, 11/20/2015 - 21:44

Authorship

Sam Blakeslee, Alex Dekhtyar, Foaad Khosmood, Franz Kurfess, Toshihiro Kuboi, Hans Poschman, Giovanni Prinzivalli, Christine Robertson, Skylar Durst

Publication

Digital Humanities 2015

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

Sydney, Australia

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 12:00

Tags

Archived Abstract

Abstract

The Digital Democracy platform obtains data about the legislative committee hearings: the video archives, the information about the state legislature and so on. Figure 1 shows the design of the DD system. The main source of information for the DD platform is the Cal Channel video archive of legislative sessions, a service provided courtesy of cable TV companies that operate in California.

The Digital Democracy Project- poster - DH2015.pdf

Digital Democracy Poster (DH 2015).pdf

Element Detection in Japanese Comic Book Panels

foaad — Thu, 21 May 2015 00:55:00 +0000

Element Detection in Japanese Comic Book Panels

foaad Wed, 05/20/2015 - 17:55

Authorship

Toshihiro Kuboi and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Digital Humanities 2015

Conference

Location

Sydney, Australia

Monday, June 1, 2015 - 12:00

Tags

DH 2015 Program

Abstract

Comic books are a unique and increasingly popular form of entertainment combining visual and textual elements of communication. This work pertains to making comic books more accessible. Specifically, this paper explains how we detect elements such as speech bubbles present in Japanese comic book panels. Some applications of the work presented in this paper are automatic detection of text and its transformation into audio or into other languages. Automatic detection of elements can also allow reasoning and analysis at a deeper semantic level than what’s possible today.