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Ask HN: Information extraction software?
I'm looking for information extraction software that I can feed in historical legal agreements and it will report:
1. Changes in the text between the documents
2. Changes in other attributes of the documents (e.g., word count)
3. % change over time in the text and attributes (e.g., text in the 1986 version of the doc is 56% different than the text in the 1985 version of the doc)
Can anyone please point me to software that might fit this particular need?
Thanks in advance!
Michael
- tgflynn 10y agoI don't know about software designed specifically for doing this with legal documents but most of this you could probably do quite easily with some simple Unix tools and a little scripting. I'm guessing the documents aren't plain text so the first step would be to extract the text. For example if they're pdf's you could use pdftotext. Then for: 1. diff/diff viewers like xxdiff(the name may have changed somewhat recently)/git 2. wc 3. diff with some scripts to automatically process the documents, count the number of words in the documents, and write to a csv file
- BjoernKW 10y agoApache UIMA ( https://uima.apache.org/ https://uima.apache.org/ ) and GATE ( https://gate.ac.uk/ie/ https://gate.ac.uk/ie/ ) come to mind. Those are not ready-made software products, though but rather frameworks that allow you to implement IE algorithms. While not exactly trivial, implementing something like what you're suggesting is definitely possible with GATE.
- dreamdu5t 10y agoI can build the software for you if you need.
- salaroglio 10y agoYou can evaluate the project http://eucases.eu/ http://eucases.eu/, you can evalute the AKOMANTOSO standard Here you can find an editor https://legixinfo.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/coming-soon-a-new-web-based-editor-for-akoma-ntoso/ https://legixinfo.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/coming-soon-a-new...