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Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the ‘Evolution’ of Legal LanguageDaniel Martin KatzMichigan State University - College of Law Michael James Bommarito IIBommarito Consulting, LLC Julie SeamanEmory University School of Law Adam CandeubMichigan State University College of Law Eugene Agichteinaffiliation not provided to SSRN December 13, 2011 Proceedings of JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Vienna, 2011 Abstract: In this paper, we highlight the potential of n-grams as a vehicle to explore the ‘evolution’ of the law and legal language. Using the full text corpus of decisions of the United States Supreme Court (1791-2005), we explore the n-gram space, offer some initial results based upon our calculations and highlight the beta version of our n-gram search interface.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 7 Keywords: N-Grams, Computational Linguistics, Law, Courts, Judges, Evolution of Law, Legal Memes, Time Series working papers seriesDate posted: December 16, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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