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And four quadrants: \u201cideological stance\u201d (high polarization, high alignment), \u201cpersonal interests\u201d (high polarization, low alignment), \u201cthematic interest\u201d (low polarization, low alignment), and \u201ctechnical consensus\u201d (low polarization, high alignment). We used this scheme to analyze an existing Open Linked Dataset with semantic web technologies (ontologies, RDF Shape expressions, and URI patterns), which records parliamentarians\u2019 political parties and their voting on law proposals during 1990\u20132023. We found that most bills (70.14%) are in the technical consensus quadrant, and could have been quickly shepherded to approval. Wider adoption of this analysis to classify new bills may help to speed up their legislative processing, ultimately allowing Congress to serve citizens in a more timely manner.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s42979-024-02933-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,31]],"date-time":"2024-05-31T07:01:27Z","timestamp":1717138887000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Toward Efficient Legislative Processes: Analysis of Chilean Congressional Bill Votes Using Semantic Web Technologies"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6570-5421","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco","family":"Cifuentes-Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6487-5813","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hern\u00e1n","family":"Astudillo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8907-5348","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 Emilio Labra","family":"Gayo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Felipe","family":"Rivera-Polo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"2933_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cifuentes-Silva F, Sifaqui C, & Labra-Gayo J. 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