[open-government] Contracts Text Mining

[Chris Taggart]

Been looking at local government contracts a little in the UK, to tie in to
the approx Euro13bn of local government spending we've imported (. Not done
much yet and bit busy with OpenCorporates (we should prob be speaking re
that as well), but happy to talk. No knowledge of text-mining though!

Chris

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On 24 March 2011 12:01, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> my name is Matej and I work for Transparency International in Slovakia.
>  Jonathan and Friedrich recommended me to ask my question around here -
>
> At TI-S, we  trying to create a site with the copies of all public
> contracts  in searchable form to be analyzed and commented upon by the
> public and experts.  One of the features we would like to develop is a
> heuristics model that would text-mine contracts for selected indicators
> (extreme durations, vendor founded shortly before contract, keywords) and
> give it a score. Contracts above certain score would be flagged, and users
> encouraged to look at them.
>
> Contracts are in Slovak, and we'd like to have a beta by the end of May.
>
> Do you know whether any similar project had been carried out?
> Do you know anyone we should definitely get in touch with?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Matej
>
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> Matej Kurian
> programovy koordinator
> Transparency International Slovensko
> kurian at transparency.sk
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