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WWW '12 Companion: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web

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US Senate is the venue of political debates where the federal bills are formed and voted. Senators show their support/opposition along the bills with their votes. This information makes it possible to extract the polarity of the senators. We use signed bipartite graphs for modeling debates, and we propose an algorithm for partitioning both the senators, and the bills comprising the debate into binary opposing camps. Simultaneously, our algorithm scales both the senators and the bills on a univariate scale. Using this scale, a researcher can identify moderate and partisan senators within each camp, and polarizing vs. unifying bills. We applied our algorithm on all the terms of the US Senate to the date for longitudinal analysis and developed a web based interactive user interface www.PartisanScale.com to visualize the analysis.

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Gokalp STemkit MDavulcu HToroslu I(2013)Partitioning and Scaling Signed Bipartite Graphs for Polarized Political BlogosphereProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Social Computing10.1109/SocialCom.2013.32(168-173)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2013
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Partisan scale
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Clustering and classification
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Data mining
      1. Clustering

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WWW '12 Companion: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web

April 2012

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ISBN:9781450312301

DOI:10.1145/2187980

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HP, France
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Gokalp STemkit MDavulcu HToroslu I(2013)Partitioning and Scaling Signed Bipartite Graphs for Polarized Political BlogosphereProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Social Computing10.1109/SocialCom.2013.32(168-173)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2013
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