• DocumentCode
    1867479
  • Title

    Analysis of Deputy and Party Similarities through Hierarchical Clustering

  • Author

    Lefait, Guillem ; Kechadi, Tahar

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    10-16 Feb. 2010
  • Firstpage
    264
  • Lastpage
    268
  • Abstract
    Speeches delivered in the French Parliament by deputies and government members are analysed, similarities between individuals are induced by the word corpus used, and finally deputies are grouped through hierarchical clustering. Similarity measures between political individuals are compared on a classification task: assigning a party to each actor. Finally, this analysis lead to a new organisation of the deputies, not only with the political party they are associated with, but also with the themes they react and the messages they deliver.
  • Keywords
    government data processing; pattern clustering; politics; French Parliament; deputy analysis; hierarchical clustering; party similarity analysis; political party; Blogs; Computer science; Costs; Educational institutions; Government; Informatics; Labeling; Speech; Vocabulary; Wikipedia; clustering; hierarchical clustering; political; text mining;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Digital Society, 2010. ICDS '10. Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    St. Maarten
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5805-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDS.2010.49
  • Filename
    5432787