[Corpora-List] Legal-domain corpora

From: Seth Grimes (grimes@altaplana.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 15:34:55 MET DST

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    Hello all,

            I'm researching legal-domain application of NLP with machine
    learning. What annotated corpora are available in this domain, either for
    free or for a license fee? I'd be interested in --

    - legislation and statutes
    - case law
    - briefs, depositions & testimony, crime reports, and evidentiary
    materials
    - court judgments
    - patent filings

    -- and also in parallel, multi-lingual corpora, for instance that might
    have been created in the EU, Switzerland, Canada, and other areas with
    multiple official languages.

            I've been told that news-media text can provide good training
    material for the legal domain. I'd also be interested in hearing
    reactions to that claim, especially if anyone has formally studied the
    question.

            Thanks very much for all help,

                                            Seth 

    --
Seth Grimes   Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management
              Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP), Contributing Editor
grimes@altaplana.com       http://altaplana.com    301-270-0795

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