Comments on: Top Ten Virginia Cross References

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:52:13 +0000

Good Lord, that’s an almost impressively bad rendering problem, Mike! I’d have a hard time doing that on purpose. I’ll fire up Ubuntu in VMWare, install Chrome in there real quick, and figure out what’s going on. Thanks so much for taking the time to take those screenshots and let me know about this, Mike.

By: Mike Trout

Mike Trout — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:34:08 +0000

I wonder what causes the page to mis-render text placement … see how some of the text overlaps letters and borders :: http://imagebin.org/220282

and the comment box renders misalligned :: http://imagebin.org/220281

this is on chrome browser running on ubuntu 12.04 linux — don’t know if its my OS reading improperly

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:01:15 +0000

I'd been looking at using Maui for that purpose, but I've been worried about that, since Maui lacks a legal-specific dictionary. LSA—which I'd never heard of before!—doesn't seem (conceptually) to require that sort of preexisting knowledge, which seems to make it a pretty great candidate. Semantic Vectors and Infomap NLP both look like they'd do the trick. The former is especially promising, because it's Lucene based, and I'm looking hard at using Lucene/Solr as a fundamental part of this project. Thanks for a fine suggestion, Bill!

By: Bill Bushey

Bill Bushey — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:22:52 +0000

Spit-balling an idea: Could you use something like latent semantic analysis to determine the topics discussed by statutes, and use that to establish relationships outside of direct mention or hierarchy?