Law and Corpus Linguistics

BYU Law Hosts 8th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference

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星期三, 十月 4, 2023
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PROVO, Utah, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced it will hold its eighth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference on October 13. The event, sponsored by Schaerr Jaffe, LLP, BYU College of Humanities and the Judicial Education Institute, will convene prominent legal and linguistics scholars, judges and industry professionals interested in furthering the discipline of corpus linguistics – the methodology for understanding the meaning of words at the time they were written by analyzing language in large collections of texts called "corpora."

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  • Lineup to include keynote by D. Gordon Smith, linguist workshop, panel on the intersection of IP law and corpus linguistics
    PROVO, Utah, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced it will hold its eighth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference on October 13.
  • Its law and corpus linguistics platform search interface has been used by thousands of researchers, including federal and state judges, and appellate attorneys.
  • Smith spearheaded the Law and Corpus Linguistics project during his tenure as dean of BYU Law.
  • The study of law and corpus linguistics was pioneered by BYU Law School.

BYU Law Adds Full Congressional Record to its Law and Corpus Linguistics Corpora

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星期三, 八月 17, 2022
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PROVO, Utah, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora. A pioneering technology tool for the legal community, the Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform enables users to analyze large collections of historical texts called "corpora" for better understanding of context and meaning of words. Although the Congressional Record has been publicly available in a digital format for years, searchability has been limited as most of the record has only been available in a PDF format. Users will now be able to search the full record through BYU's Law and Corpus Linguistics interface, which allows for users to complete a variety of complex searches.

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  • PROVO, Utah, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora.
  • Users will now be able to search the full record through BYU's Law and Corpus Linguistics interface, which allows for users to complete a variety of complex searches.
  • The Congressional Record Corpus (CRC) contains the entirety of the Congressional Record as published from 1873-2021 by the Government Publishing Office.
  • BYU Law is a pioneer in the discipline of law and corpus linguistics as the first law school in the United States to offer a course on the topic, the first to host an annual corpus linguistics conference, and the first to develop a dedicated Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform.

BYU Law Hosts 6th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference to Advance the Study of Language in the Law

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星期三, 一月 27, 2021
Linguistics, Applied linguistics, Academic disciplines, Corpus linguistics, Articles, Discourse analysis, Law and Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive science, Corpus

In addition to hosting this annual conference, BYU Law develops pioneering legal research corpora, and fosters influential scholarship and training using this method.

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  • In addition to hosting this annual conference, BYU Law develops pioneering legal research corpora, and fosters influential scholarship and training using this method.
  • BYU Law will release the public version of its law and corpus linguistics platform and search interface the first quarter of 2021.
  • BYU Law's sixth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference, sponsored by Schaerr Jaffe, LLP , brings together legal scholars from across various areas of scholarship, prominent corpus linguistics scholars, and judges who have employed corpus linguistics analysis in their decisions.
  • She has presented lectures and published numerous articles about using corpus linguistics as a tool in legal interpretation and forensic linguistics.

BYU Law Hosts 4th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference, Launches Version 3.0 of Leading-edge Technology Platform

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星期四, 三月 7, 2019
Linguistics, Academic disciplines, Corpus linguistics, Applied linguistics, Law and Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive science, Corpus, Corpora

The symposium brought together prominent legal and corpus linguistics scholars, as well as state and federal judges who have employed corpus linguistics analysis in their decisions.

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  • The symposium brought together prominent legal and corpus linguistics scholars, as well as state and federal judges who have employed corpus linguistics analysis in their decisions.
  • "It is exciting to see how far we've advanced the study and practical use of corporate linguistics in the law since BYU Law first embarked on our Law and Corpus Linguistics Project," said D. Gordon Smith, Dean, BYU Law.
  • Ahead of the 2019 conference, BYU Law launched version 3.0 of its Law and Corpus Linguistics Platform.
  • The conference agenda included panel discussions about "Law and Corpus Linguistics Theory," "Law and Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment," "Constitutional Applications Panel and Corpus Linguistics" and "Corpus Linguistics and Legal Comprehension."

BYU Law Launches First Legal Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform

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星期一, 九月 17, 2018
Linguistics, Corpus linguistics, Law and Corpus Linguistics, Applied linguistics, Discourse analysis, Brigham Young University, Corpus, Corpora

PROVO, Utah, Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation, today announced the launch of its Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform, including three new and historically significant corpora.

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  • PROVO, Utah, Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation, today announced the launch of its Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform, including three new and historically significant corpora.
  • The new Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform builds upon these foundational innovations.
  • In 2013, BYU Law offered the first course on law and corpus linguistics in the United States, taught by Stephen Mouritsen.
  • In 2016, BYU Law organized the first academic conference on law and corpus linguistics in partnership with Georgetown Law, and BYU Law has continued to host an annual conference on the topic.