[Corpora-List] legal text: US Code available in XML and HTML

From: Lillian Lee (llee@cs.cornell.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 05:08:30 MET DST

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    From: "Thomas R. Bruce" <trb2@cornell.edu>

    Earlier this week, the Legal Information Institute unveiled a new edition of
    the United States Code -- all the Federal law passed by Congress currently
    in force. For the first time, we are also releasing the underlying XML
    version as a dataset for use by researchers interested in legal text (or in
    highly-structured text or legislation generally). You can find the HTML
    version at http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode ; the XML is available
    for download at http://lula.law.cornell.edu/uscxml ; a sort of disorganized
    colophon muttering about various technical aspects of the project is at
    http://lula.law.cornell.edu/davalyzer .

    Part of the reason I'm telling all of you this is that I'd like to get the
    word out to the IS community generally and as widely as possible, and I'm
    largely ignorant of its hangouts and folkways. If any of you know of
    mailing lists or other apparatus where such notification would be
    appropriate, please feel free (and strongly encouraged) to pass it on. This
    is the first time (that I know of) that such a large body of legislation has
    been available to people in the IS community. If you know of anyone with a
    particular interest in such things, do let me (or them) know.

    Thanks all,
    Tb.

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    Thomas R. Bruce (trb2@cornell.edu)
    Director, Legal Information Institute
    Cornell Law School
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/

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