RegBR

an application overview

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Keywords:

transparency, open government, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, government regulation

Abstract

Government openness and transparency are key elements to build an accountable and trustworthy state, which are essential concepts to functioning democracies and market economies. Transparency in government processes increases citizen understanding and allows them to get involved by supervising and auditing government actions. RegBR was conceived as a framework to improve the legislative transparency, giving the citizens a tool to observe and monitor the Brazilian regulatory process and its characteristics. In this context, RegBR uses structured information to both create a historical regulatory flow and several regulatory metrics, which present how relevant are different sectors of the economy, how restricted are the normative acts, how linguistically complex are the regulations and, finally, how popular are theses normative acts through the eyes of the citizen and for the government. 

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Author Biographies

Leticia Moreira Valle, University of Brasilia (UnB)

PhD degree in Machine Learning at the Department of Electrical Engineering (UnB) and Data Science Manager, Universidade de Brasília (UnB). M.Sc in Electronic Systems with emphasis in Complex Systems Engineering, University of Bordeaux. B.Sc. degree in Communication Network Engineering, UnB.  Electronic Engineering, ENSEIRB-MATMECA.

Stefano Giacomazzi Dantas, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasil

M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University. B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidade de Brasília (UnB).  Researcher, UnB. Data Scientist, GSTS.

Pedro Masson Sesconetto Souza, Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (Enap)

Master and Graduated in Political Science from the University of Brasília (UnB).

Daniel Guerreiro e Silva, University of Brasilia (UnB)

Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. and B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering, Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp). Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Brasília (ENE/UnB).

Ugo Silva Dias, University of Brasilia (UnB)

Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Estadual de Campinas  (Unicamp). B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).  Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidade de Brasília (ENE/UnB).

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2023-10-09

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Moreira Valle, L., Giacomazzi Dantas, S., Masson Sesconetto Souza, P., Guerreiro e Silva, D. ., & Silva Dias, U. (2023). RegBR: an application overview. Revista Do Serviço Público, 74(3), 634-656. Retrieved from https://revista.enap.gov.br/index.php/RSP/article/view/7170

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