data_corpus_amicus: Amicus curiae briefs from Bakke (1978) and Bollinger (2008)
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Description
Usage
Format
References
Description
Texts of amicus curiae briefs labelled as being either pro-petitioner or
pro-respondent in US Supreme court cases on affirmative action, Bakke (1978)
and Bollinger (2008), taken from Evans et al (2007).
Usage
1
Format
The corpus consists of 102 documents and includes the following document variables:
- trainclass
A character indicating the class of 4 documents
that can be used to train a classifier (the remaining ones are NA);
P: Pro-Petitioner; R: Pro-Respondent.
- testclass
A character indicating the "true" class of 98 remaining documents
to assess the prediction of the classification; AP: Pro-Petitioner; AR: Pro-Respondent.
References
Evans, M., McIntosh, W., Lin, J., & Cates, C. (2007).
"Recounting the Courts? Applying Automated Content Analysis to Enhance Empirical Legal Research."
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4(4): 1007–1039.
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Description Usage Format References
Description
Texts of amicus curiae briefs labelled as being either pro-petitioner or pro-respondent in US Supreme court cases on affirmative action, Bakke (1978) and Bollinger (2008), taken from Evans et al (2007).
Usage
1 |
Format
The corpus consists of 102 documents and includes the following document variables:
- trainclass
A character indicating the class of 4 documents that can be used to train a classifier (the remaining ones are NA); P: Pro-Petitioner; R: Pro-Respondent.
- testclass
A character indicating the "true" class of 98 remaining documents to assess the prediction of the classification; AP: Pro-Petitioner; AR: Pro-Respondent.
References
Evans, M., McIntosh, W., Lin, J., & Cates, C. (2007). "Recounting the Courts? Applying Automated Content Analysis to Enhance Empirical Legal Research." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4(4): 1007–1039.
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