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Presentation @ 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems ( Jurix 2011 - Vienna )
1. Legal Language Explorer
Presentation @ 24th International Conference on
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2011)
daniel martin katz
michael j bommarito ii
julie seaman
adam candeub
eugene agichtein
2. Law is characterized by a
relatively small number
of highly influential
cases and jurists whose
conceptualization of law
comes to dominate
5. Extreme Skewing is a Typical
Feature of Legal Systems
Katz, et al (2011) Katz & Stafford (2010) Geist (2009)
American Legal Academy American Federal Judges Austrian Supreme Court
Smith (2007) Smith (2007) Post & Eisen (2000)
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Law Reviews NY Ct of Appeals
20. Generate the N-Gram Mapping
(1) extract the opinion text from each
case and store it as a sequence of
characters
(2) convert this sequence of characters
into a sequence of words through Word
Tokenization (Penn Tree Bank Algorithm)
(3) iterate over words in the length M
sequence from index 1 to index M + 1 – N
47. Click Through
to Access
Results from
BulkResource.org
48. For More Information -
Full Version of the Paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1971953
49. For
Implementation
Details
(Including the Key Value
Storage Method, etc.)
http://www.michaelbommarito.com/
blog/2011/12/16/building-legal-
language-explorer-interactivity-
and-drill-down-nosql-and-sql/
50. Slides will Be Posted to CLS Blog
http://computationallegalstudies.com/
51. This is Only The Beginning
Stay Tuned for More in 2012
:)
daniel martin katz
michael j bommarito ii
julie seaman
adam candeub
eugene agichtein