Difference between revisions of "Stylistic Structure in Historic Legal Text"

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This will be the project page for [[User:Emayfiel|Elijah Mayfield]] and [[User:Yww|William Y. Wang]].
 
This will be the project page for [[User:Emayfiel|Elijah Mayfield]] and [[User:Yww|William Y. Wang]].
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'''The Dataset'''
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We have collected a corpus of slave-related and property-related US supreme court legal opinions from Lexis Nexis.
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The dataset includes 6,014 slave-related state supreme court cases from 24 states, during the period of 1730 - 1866.
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It also includes 14,580 property-related cases from the same period.

Revision as of 16:05, 12 September 2011

This will be the project page for Elijah Mayfield and William Y. Wang.


The Dataset We have collected a corpus of slave-related and property-related US supreme court legal opinions from Lexis Nexis. The dataset includes 6,014 slave-related state supreme court cases from 24 states, during the period of 1730 - 1866. It also includes 14,580 property-related cases from the same period.