A quantitative analysis of legal word use
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Jurimetrics, the empirical study of legal phenomena, is generally associated with the quantitative analysis of legal cases. However, an interesting field, which can also be seen as a part of jurimetrics, is the analysis of legal word use. The subject matter of this examination was a broad selection of British legal documents, both case reports and legislation. Using quantitative methods developed by linguists, these documents were compared with each other but also with documents containing ordinary English usage. These three different types of documents were roughly the same size: about 16 million words each. This paper presents the preliminary results of this examination. It also presents the results of an exploratory comparison between the word use in English legal documents/ordinary English documents and that between Dutch legal documents/ordinary Dutch documents. These results could help to improve the accuracy of legal retrieval systems.
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