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Papers, Posters, and Presentations

Purpura, S. Search Frameworks For Annotation And Learning Of Subjective Topics For Heterogeneous User Groups. Dissertation, Cornell University. 2011."

Purpura, S. et al. "Fit4life: the design of a persuasive technology promoting healthy behavior and ideal weight" CHI 2011:423-432. Nominated Best Paper. Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award.

Purpura, S., “Avoiding Fool’s Gold: Mining Annotations from the Crowd”. Cornell 2010.

Cusick, T. Purpura, S., Gay G. Pollak, J., Cardie, C. “Pocketpedia: Augmented Reality Information Sharing”. Cornell BOOM 2010. This project won the Cisco Pioneer Award.

Prieto, J. Vidanapathirana, S. Purpura, S. Cardie, C., Pollak, J. Hancock, J. Gay, G. “Emotion Classification and Data Mining on Social Networking Sites”. Cornell BOOM 2010. This project won the Yahoo! Excellence Award for direct relation to advancement of the company’s work.

Purpura, S., Wilkerson, J., Hillard, D. "The U.S. Policy Agenda Legislation Corpus Volume 1 - a Language Resource from 1947 - 1998". The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco. (poster)

Bruce, T., Cardie, C., Farina, C., Purpura, S. "Facilitating Issue Categorization & Analysis in Rulemaking." e-Government Workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.

Purpura, S., Cardie, C. Simons, J. “Active Learning for e-Rulemaking: Public Comment Categorization." Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.

Cardie, C., Farina, C., Aijaz, A., Rawding, M., Purpura, S. "A Study in Rule-Specific Issue Categorization for e-Rulemaking" Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research. Montreal, Canada.

Hillard, D. Purpura, S. Wilkerson, J. "Computer Assisted Topic Classification for Mixed Methods Social Science Research". Journal of Information Technology and Politics 4:4.

Keynote Speech: "Introduction to Supervised Learning in the Policy Agendas Project" presented at a 2007 Symposium on Policy Agenda Studies at Penn State University.

Hillard, Purpura, and Wilkerson, 2007. "Computer Assisted Topic Classification for Mixed Methods Social Research". Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Science.

Keynote Speech: "Supervised Learning in International Policy Agendas Projects" presented at a 2007 International Symposium on Policy Agenda Studies at the Hague, Netherlands.

Purpura, Lazer, Esterling, Hillard, and Neblo, 2007. "Declaring Independence from the President in the 2006 Mid-term Elections". Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Hillard, Purpura, and Wilkerson, 2007. "An Active Learning Framework for Classifying Political Text". Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Coding Across the Disciplines: A Project Based Workshop on Manual Text Annotation Techniques. November, 2006 NSF sponsored workshop to facilitate the creation of annotation science.

Poster at POLMETH 2006 (Political Methodology) at U.C. Davis.

The Congressional Bills Project

Purpura, S., Hillard D. “Automated Classification of Congressional Legislation." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Digital Government Research. San Diego, CA.

Class paper on analysis of narrowcasting in the 2004 Presidential election using structured learning with SVMs to analyze political communication: "A Comparative Study of Human Coding and Context Analysis against Support Vector Machines to Differentiate Campaign Emails by Party and Issues ".

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