Name in original language
Ulysses - Análises inteligentes em enquetes
Initiative overview
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies defined that all bills presented by parliamentarians are systematically made available to receive citizens' contributions through e-polls. There are about 16,000 proposals per year, and some of them receive more than 1,000,000 suggestions/comments from citizens during the weeks of greatest discussion on the topic.
It was observed that merely knowing the percentage of citizens who were for/against a legislative bill is not sufficient to improve the legislative text. Therefore, it was necessary to add an analysis of a free field in the e-poll through which citizens are invited to leave their comments and opinions. A human full analysis on these opinions is practically impossible, due to the large number and the timeliness with which parliamentarians need to position themselves in debates regarding those bills.
The "Ulysses – Smart analysis on e-Polls" algorithm identifies the main arguments for and against each legislative bill in progress, grouping them and showing how distant the opinion groups are from each other. The analysis is semantic, which enables deep analysis of opinions, identifying situations of irony included in the texts. In addition to results presented in text format, the algorithm also presents a graphical view of citizens' opinion groups.
Results, outcomes and impacts
More accurate and timely analysis of the arguments for and against a legislative bill, which makes it possible to identify:
- Which part of the legislative text is most accepted or rejected by citizens;
- Whether there is any problem with society's interpretation of the legislative proposal, which may have resulted from disinformation.
Challenges and lessons learned
- Qualitative analyses of large volumes of data need to be incorporated into analyses on content received from citizens;
- This type of analysis is an important mechanism for identifying the impact that disinformation has on citizens' opinions



























