Political news for physicians/scientists.

Political News Indexer

In and around Washington D.C. today, one of the hottest buzzwords flying around is “digital government.” Millions of people are logging on to the web every day to get informed about, and get involved in the political process. They can register to vote, fill out their tax forms, join a grassroots campaign, donate money to political causes, read the news, read opinions, and voice their own for ev...

Distributing News and Political Influence

Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...

Annotating Opinions in German Political News

This paper presents an approach to construction of an annotated corpus for German political news for the opinion mining task. The annotated corpus has been applied to learn relation extraction rules for extraction of opinion holders, opinion content and classification of polarities. An adapted annotated schema has been developed on top of the state-of-the-art research. Furthermore, a general to...

Identifying Political Bias in News Articles

An Annotated Corpus for Sentiment Analysis in Political News

This article describes a corpus of news texts in Brazilian Portuguese. News were collected from four big newswire outlets, segmented in paragraphs, and marked up by a group of four annotators, who had to classify each paragraph according to two dimensions: target entity (that is the person which is the main subject of the news contained in the paragraph), and the paragraph’s polarity with respe...