Papers on Legal Data and Text Analysis @ Text as Data 2013

Several papers on the analysis of legal data or legal texts or concerning legal communication or decision making or were presented at NDATAD 2013: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data Workshop 2013 , held 27-28 September at the London School of Economics:

• Michael Z. Gill and Andrew B. Hall: How Judicial Identity Changes The Text Of Legal Rulings


• Valentin Gold, Katharina Holzinger, and Christian Rohrdantz: Towards Automating the Measurement of Deliberative Communication


• Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Tom S. Clark: Scaling Politically Meaningful Dimensions Using Texts and Votes


• Hossein Rahmani and Christine Arnold: PolicyMiner: From Oysters to Pearls


• Douglas R. Rice and Christopher Zorn: Corpus-Based Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis of Specialized Vocabularies


• John Wilkerson, David Smith, and Nick Stramp: Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse Approach


• Ken Younge: PiCloud: A simple approach to cloud computing

The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #TextasData

Joshua Tucker has a new post about the conference: The rise of the machines in the study of politics: 5 things I learned from studies using #TextAsData .

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