Re: [Corpora-List] Legal-domain corpora

From: Stella Neumann (st.neumann@mx.uni-saarland.de)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 18:27:50 MET DST

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    Seth,
    check out the HOLJ Corpus built in the framework of the SUM project in
    Edinburgh (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/SUM/index.html).
    It contains court decisions by the House of Lords, is annotated and can
    be downloaded for free.
    Best,
    Stella

    Seth Grimes schrieb:
    > 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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