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Regina Barzilay.
Hynes, Zachary (Zachary K.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2014-11-24T18:38:18Z
2014-11-24T18:38:18Z
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91831
894229792
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2014.
"February 2014." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
In this work, we explore text alignment with the context of the legal domain and outline several new tasks designed to make comparison and analysis of inhomogenous state statute hierarchies easier. We explore the unique features of the statute hierarchy dataset, apply several baseline text alignment algorithms, and address the issue of clustering evaluation when documents may belong to multiple clusters. We also explore pairwise alignment strategies and assess these in comparison to clustering methods.
by Zachary Hynes.
M.Eng.
29 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
State by State : automated alignment and analysis of state statutes
Automated alignment and analysis of state statutes
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