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creators_name: Ash, Elliott
creators_name: Chen, Daniel L.
creators_id: daniel.chen@iast.fr
creators_idrefppn: 241586631
creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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title: Mapping the geometry of law using document embeddings
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abstract: Recent work in natural language processing represents language objects (words and documents) as dense vectors that encode the relations between those objects. This paper explores the application of these methods to legal language, with the goal of understanding judicial reasoning and the relations between judges. In an application to federal appellate courts, we show that these vectors encode information that distinguishes courts, time, and legal topics. The vectors do not reveal spatial distinctions in terms of political party or law school attended, but they do highlight generational differences across judges. We conclude the paper by outlining a range of promising future applications of these methods.
date: 2018-07
date_type: published
publisher: IAST Working Paper
official_url: http://iast.fr/pub/32766
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language: en
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view_date_year: 2018
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series: IAST Working Paper
volume: 18-77
place_of_pub: Toulouse
pages: 22
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: IAST Working Paper
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citation:   Ash, Elliott and Chen, Daniel L. <https://www.idref.fr/241586631>  (2018) Mapping the geometry of law using document embeddings.  IAST Working Paper, n. 18-77, Toulouse     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48122/1/Mapping_the_Geometry_of_Law_using_Document_Embeddings_EJELS.pdf