VIDI - Visualising the Impact of the legislation by analysing public DIscussions using statistical means

VIDI represents a very innovative technological solution, based on the powerful combination of the linguistic and statistic analysis of the text documents (discussions) in order to extract information from them, known as Text Mining, which enables further, extensive, sentiment-based analyses of the discussions, known as Opinion Mining, inclusive estimating their impact on the legislation. We use novel visualization techniques for presenting different views on the information and enabling efficient navigation through this large information space.

In particular, VIDI will provide an efficient toolset for an advance visualization of messages posted in an on-line discussion forum, that will support „monitoring“ and analyzing discussions. The ultimate goal is a better understanding of emer­ging arguments and ideas contributing to the policy making process.