Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LDC
 
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JURIS (Justice Department Retrieval and Inquiry System) Text Corpus
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The text data contained on this two-CD-ROM set
represent a release of the JURIS (Justice Department
Retrieval and Inquiry System) data collection that
has been made available to the Linguistic Data
Consortium (LDC) by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The time span of the text ranges from the 1700's to
the early 1990's.
 
There are 1664 individual text files in the corpus,
1011 on the first CD-ROM, and 653 on the second. The
original archive consisted of 219 files ranging
between less than 1 MB and nearly 70 MB in size. In
order to make the data more accessible for research
use, we chose to divide the larger files into pieces,
such that the average file size was about 2 MB when
uncompressed (the largest uncompressed file size is
about 4.5 MB).  Divisions of the files were done at
document boundaries, so all files contain whole
documents.
 
There are a total of 694,667 document units in the
corpus, and these can be categorized to some extent
with regard to their content.  The following is a
partial list of categories and their descriptions
drawn from JURIS documentation contained in the
corpus. The terminology and organization of
categories are those used in the JURIS documentation:
 
 * ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
 
Published Comptroller General Decisions; Unpublished
Comptroller General Decisions; Opinions of the
Attorney General; Office of Legal Counsel (US Dept.
of Justice Board of Contract Appeals; ADP Protest
Report (Summary of ADP Procurement Protests before
the GSBCA); Federal Labor Relations Authority Case
Decisions; FLRA Administrative Law Judge Decisions;
Federal Service Impasses Decisions; Decisions and
Reports on Rulings of the Assistant Sec.  of Labor
for Labor Management Relations; Federal Labor
Relations Council Rulings on Requests of the Asst.
Sec. of Labor for Labor Management Relations; HUD
Administrative Law Decisions; Merit System Protection
Board Decisions; Decisions under Immigration and
Nationality Laws; Environmental Protection Agency
General Counsel Opinions; Equal Opportunity
Commission Decisions; Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission Policy Statements; US Office of Government
Ethics Decisions; HHS Department Appeals Board
Decisions.
 
 * DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BRIEFS
 
Office of the Solicitor General; Civil Division;
Civil Division Trial; Environmental and Natural
Resources Division; Tax Division Criminal Appellate;
US Attorney's Offices; US Trustees' Offices.
 
 * CASE LAW
 
U.S. Supreme Court; Federal Reporter, 2nd Series;
Court of Appeals Unpublished Decisions; Federal
Supplement; Federal Rules Decisions; Atlantic 2nd
Reporter (DC only); Bankruptcy Reporter; Courts of
Military Review; Military Justice Reporter; Court of
Claims.
 
 * FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
 
FOIA Update Newsletter; DOJ Guide to the FOIA Case
List Publications.
 
* FEDERAL REGULATIONS
 
Code of Federal Regulations; Unified Agenda of
Federal Regulations; Defense Acquisition Regulations.
 
 * TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
 
United States Treaties and Other International
Agreements; Department of Defense Unpublished
International Agreements.
 
 * INDIAN LAW
 
Opinions of the Solicitor (Dept. of Interior);
Ratified Treaties; Unratified Treaties; Presidential
Proclamations; Executive Orders and Other Orders
Pertaining to Indians.
 
 * IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION LAW
 
Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Law;
Title 8 - Code of Federal Regulations; Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1988, Legislative History;
Equal Access to Justice Act, Legislative History.
 
* STATUTORY LAW
 
Public Laws; United States Code; Executive Orders;
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988; Section-by-section
analysis of anti-drug abuse act of 1988; Criminal
Division Handbook on CCCA; The Organic Laws of the
United States.
 
 * TAX LAW
 
US Tax Court Decisions; US Board of Tax Appeals
Decisions; Tax Division's Summons Enforcement
Decisions; Tax Division's Tax Protester Case List;
Tax Division's Criminal Tax Manual; Tax Division's
Criminal Tax Indictment/Information Forms; Tax
Division's Standardized Criminal Tax Jury
Instructions; Tax Division's Criminal Section
Newsletter; Tax Court Memorandum Decisions; IRS
Cumulative Bulletin; Tax International Acts; IRS News
Releases; IRS General Counsel Memoranda; IRS Actions
on Decisions; IRS Technical Memoranda.
 
 * MANUALS
 
United States Attorney's Manual; United States
Trustees' Manual; Federal Personnel Manual; Federal
Acquisition Regulations; Federal Acquisition
Circulars; Federal Travel Regulation; Federal
Information Resources Management Regulation; Federal
Property Management Regulations; Principles of
Federal Appropriations Law; Justice Department
Acquisition Regulation; Justice Property Management
Regulations.
 
 * DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WORKPRODUCTS
 
Civil Division Monographs; Civil Division Torts
Branch Handbook on damages under FTCA; Criminal
Division Monographs; Criminal Division Forms;
Criminal Division Guidelines for Drafting
Indictments; Criminal Division Narcotics; Forfeiture,
Prosecution Manual; Criminal Division Directory of
Services; Asset Forfeiture Manuals; Obscenity
Enforcement Reporter; Environmental and Natural
Resources Division Monographs; US Sentencing
Commission's Guidelines Manual; Sentencing Guidelines
Updates.
 
The text files are all formatted using a set of SGML
tags to mark document boundaries, and to mark major
structural features within documents.  As with file
organization, the markup is derived from the document
structures as provided by the Justice Department.
 
Institutions that have membership in the LDC during
the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this
corpus in the same manner as all other text and
speech corpora published by the LDC.  Nonmembers may
purchase JURIS for $1500.
 
If you would like to order a copy of this corpus,
please email your request to
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information before placing your order, or would like
to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send
email or call (215) 898-0464.
 
Further information about the LDC and its available
corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data
Consortium WWW Home Page at URL:
 
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