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It does seem to work pretty well. I'm using it to analyze all US Congress bills: https://govscent.org/bill/USA/118hres190ih https://govscent.org/bill/USA/118hr

by winrid 4y ago

It does seem to work pretty well. I'm using it to analyze all US Congress bills: https://govscent.org/bill/USA/118hres190ih https://govscent.org/bill/USA/118hres190ih It extracts the topics and determines how on topic the bill is. Soon we're adding a topic browser and the homepage will have some fun stats :) it's all free.

Ajedi32 4y ago
Wow, I didn't realize how many congressional bills are just pointless resolutions with zero legislative impact. Is this list of bills curated in any way? Where are you sourcing it from? A quick scan of https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills/ seems to turn up bills with a lot more substance. Edit: Upon further investigation it seems like a lot of those are not technically bills, but rather House or Senate resolutions. Explained here: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_... The govinfo.gov list seems to indicate that such resolutions are pretty common, but significantly less so than bills, so I'm not sure why the front page seems to consist only of resolutions right now.
- winrid 4y ago
  It's just everything from https://github.com/unitedstates/congress https://github.com/unitedstates/congress The homepage just shows the most recent data (it auto updates every 6 hours). I plan to add more filters and things to make it more useful. I've only spent a few Sundays on it so far :P It's in Django so very easy to contribute to: https://github.com/winrid/govscent https://github.com/winrid/govscent I also plan to add all bills, all the way back to 1800.
- winrid 4y ago
  Part of the problem is also the 3.5-turbo token limit. I'm awaiting approval for GPT4 which raises the limit to 8k tokens, should help process some larger bills.
- winrid 4y ago
  Update - long bills are now supported: https://govscent.org/bill/USA/111s570pcs https://govscent.org/bill/USA/111s570pcs

by winrid 4y ago

Ajedi32 4y ago

Wow, I didn't realize how many congressional bills are just pointless resolutions with zero legislative impact. Is this list of bills curated in any way? Where are you sourcing it from? A quick scan of https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills/ seems to turn up bills with a lot more substance. Edit: Upon further investigation it seems like a lot of those are not technically bills, but rather House or Senate resolutions. Explained here: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_... The govinfo.gov list seems to indicate that such resolutions are pretty common, but significantly less so than bills, so I'm not sure why the front page seems to consist only of resolutions right now.

winrid 4y ago
It's just everything from https://github.com/unitedstates/congress https://github.com/unitedstates/congress The homepage just shows the most recent data (it auto updates every 6 hours). I plan to add more filters and things to make it more useful. I've only spent a few Sundays on it so far :P It's in Django so very easy to contribute to: https://github.com/winrid/govscent https://github.com/winrid/govscent I also plan to add all bills, all the way back to 1800.
winrid 4y ago
Part of the problem is also the 3.5-turbo token limit. I'm awaiting approval for GPT4 which raises the limit to 8k tokens, should help process some larger bills.
winrid 4y ago
Update - long bills are now supported: https://govscent.org/bill/USA/111s570pcs https://govscent.org/bill/USA/111s570pcs