Papers by Sophia Schlosser
Helping a Friend or Supporting a Cause? Disentangling Active and Passive Cosponsorship in the U.S. Congress (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | In the U.S. Congress, legislators can use active and passive cosponsorship to support bills. |
| Approach: | They develop an Encoder+RGCN based model that learns legislator representations from bill texts and speech transcripts and uses them to predict voting decisions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts active and passive cosponsorship with an F1-score of 0.88. |