Using Natural Language Processing for eLegislation Project
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Dr. Rachel Roxas, DLSU
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Ms. Charibeth Cheng
Mr. Sherwin Ona
Mr. Allan Borra
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Using Natural Language Processing for eLegislation (NLP) Project, under Dr. Rachel Roxas of the De La Salle University, creates a prototype for the Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee for stakeholders (e.g. general public, legislative staff) to extract, retrieve and organize existing and future data for easier reference and use. Initially, the research problem was defined as “how can ICT encourage participation in the legislative process of the Philippine Senate?” This problem statement led to the main project objective of developing an “eParticipation system prototype” for the BRC/BROOM that will integrate document management, information engineering and comment organizer functions.
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This project aims to develop a new avenue for enhanced participation and constituency empowerment through the use of relevant ICT solutions.
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The project sets the following targets:
a. Explore and develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities that will focus on text processing techniques (filtering techniques) in the extraction, retrieval, and organization of unstructured raw data; and,
b. Determine the applicability of the developed prototype through expert validation and information system benchmarking.
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| The research team from the College of Computer Studies (CCS), DLSU-Manila organized a series of meetings and discussions to ascertain the needs and demands of the Philippine Senate’s Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC/BROOM). These meetings led to the realization of the project’s scope and the need to adopt a multi-stakeholder view of the eParticipation initiative. The team conducted numerous interviews and site visitations specifically targeting the BRC/BROOM that led to identifying the initial requirements definition of BRC-BROOM.
At the same time initial work on the front-end component of the eParticipation and PANeGOV website were simultaneously done. Although still an on-going effort, the results of the research component supplemented the front-end design for the project, including the expansion of groups (e.g. government offices, media organizations) covered.
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| Currently unavailable. Project on-going. |
