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NLP + Machine Learning Prev: NLP Researcher @AdobeResearch, PhD @ClipUmd.
Jun 19 11 tweets 5 min read
New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!

With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!

2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!

🧵Image First, the released dataset has pretty good geographic coverage, and accounts for a majority of the US population!

Everything including zoning, noise, housing codes, and whether or not you can ride an ATV without a license.Image