@inproceedings{babafemi-akinfaderin-2020-predicting,
    title = "Predicting and Analyzing Law-Making in {K}enya",
    author = "Babafemi, Oyinlola  and
      Akinfaderin, Adewale",
    editor = "Cunha, Rossana  and
      Shaikh, Samira  and
      Varis, Erika  and
      Georgi, Ryan  and
      Tsai, Alicia  and
      Anastasopoulos, Antonios  and
      Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Seattle, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2020.winlp-1.26/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.26",
    pages = "103--106",
    abstract = "Modelling and analyzing parliamentary legislation, roll-call votes and order of proceedings in developed countries has received significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we focused on understanding the bills introduced in a developing democracy, the Kenyan bicameral parliament. We developed and trained machine learning models on a combination of features extracted from the bills to predict the outcome - if a bill will be enacted or not. We observed that the texts in a bill are not as relevant as the year and month the bill was introduced and the category the bill belongs to."
}