LINGUIST List 29.1452
Tue Apr 03 2018
Disc: Software Development Proposal
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-Mar-2018
From: Eli Levine <elilevin
buffalo.edu>
Subject: Software Development Proposal
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message to a friend Good evening,
I am looking for a
linguist and/or computer scientist who is able to piece apart sentences and phrases
in Constitutions and laws to translate them into Elinor Ostrom's institutional
syntax? The software should be able to be fed a document (.pdf or Word) that it can
then search through to find the ADICO (Attribute, Deontic, aIm, Conditions, Or else)
phrases in the legal text. The goal is to identify the underlying structures of the
''game'' beneath the legal text's face-value meaning. This data can then be used to
understand the underlying processes beneath laws and rules, which can then help
researchers and policymakers alike make reforms in the underlying processes more
explicit and easier to understand, to ultimately improve life and the quality of
life for humans in this world.
I am a Master's student at the University at
Buffalo in their Urban Planning program. The software would be a tool for
policymakers and researchers alike to retroactively understand laws and the
structures of incentives and rules underpinning socio-economic systems, and
proactively make reforms to the law(s) to produce healthier social dynamics and more
functional processes. My thinking is the process would start in English grammar,
before being made applicable to other languages.
Thank you for your time
and consideration. Hopefully I explained this well enough. Please feel free to write
if you have any questions.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
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