New: A short essay on "Click-Through Democracy" published in a fall 2007 GSA newsletter and slides from a October 2007 presentation to the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Future Events: dg.o 2008, to be held in Montréal, Quebec, (May 18-21, 2008)

dg.o 2007 Papers: "Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims," Kwon et al., "A Bootstrapping Approach for Identifying Stakeholders in Public-Comment Corpora," Arguello and Callan (dg.o 2007 papers)

Project Highlight: A brief 2007 update to the NSF on recent usability testing efforts and the ongoing collaboration with the US Fish & Wildlife Service to sort and analyze public comments about the polar bear listing.

In the News: Washington Post (November 22, 2007), Science (April 27, 2007), Government Computer News (May 23, 2006 & June 27, 2005) and BNA's Environmental Compliance Bulletin (May 22, 2006).

dg.o 2006 Research Group Papers: You can read three research papers prepared for dg.o 2006. There are papers on collective text analysis, labeling, and near duplicate detection.

dg.o 2006 Research Group Presentations: Download dg.o 2006 presentations by Namhee Kwon on collective text analysis, Pucktada Treeratpituk on labeling, and Grace Hui Yang on near duplicate detection.

White Paper Collection: There is a collection of White Papers prepared for a May 2006 workshop at dg.o 2006 called "eRulemaking at the Crossroads."

2006 Project Highlight: This short paper is an annual report to the dg.o 2006 meeting on the progress made by the research group in the past year.

Report: Download the eRulemaking Workshop 2.0 report or read an October 2004 press release about the report.

eRulemaking Resources: Sign up for the E-Rulemaking listserv, hosted by Harvard University, or visit their comprehensive clearinghouse which contains a report from a January 2003 NSF-funded workshop. You can also visit Regulations.Gov and participate in U.S. federal eRulemaking.

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This research project was initiated during the fall 1999 semester and this website was made possible with the following grants from the National Science Foundation: III-0705566 "Collaborative Research III-COR: From a Pile of Documents to a Collection of Information: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Text Analysis," IIS-0429293 “Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking,“ EIA-00328914 “SGER COLLABORATIVE: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data,” SES-0322662 “Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Comparing Traditional vs. Electronic Comment from a Discursive Democratic Framework,“ and EIA-0089892 “SGER: Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public Commentary.”