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Text-mining the voice of the people

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Statistical techniques help public leaders turn text in unstructured citizen feedback into responsive e-democracy.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 2
            February 2012
            111 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2076450
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