In the United States, for example, governmental bodies are providing and soliciting political documents via the Internet, with lofty goals in mind: electronic rulemaking (eRulemaking) initiatives involving the "electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process", may "[alter] the citizen-government relationship" (Shulman and Schlosberg, 2002).
we approach the problem of classifying references by representing each reference with a wordpresence vector derived from a window of text surrounding the reference.