Roadmap

What it gives

• The address reader keeps the units a line names before a section of an Act, and the renumbering reader reads "Such section" (#387, #431).
• The matcher does not take a few words as evidence, and it matches an added provision with the provisions below it (#389, #390, #432).
• Citations read subdivisions such as (ii) and (14A), and the plain text of opinions loses the publisher's watermark (#410, #413).
• An input that the dataset does not hold stops a command with exit 1, and the readers report the newest review of a link (#425, #415).

What it gives

• bills and show-bill name the public law, show-bill accepts "Pub. L. 119-21", and the counts give the amendments that a link names (#297).
• The address reader reads "Such section" and "Such subsection" (#364). For S. 1071, 504 of 977 amendments have an address (was 469).
• A list of instructions under a whole title is one amendment for each item, with the section it names (#365).
• A citation of a range of subdivisions, such as "§§994(a)(1)-(3)", links each one (#366).
• diff does not report a change when the only difference is a format character, such as a soft hyphen (#363).

What it gives

• The words_to_data command for Linux, macOS and Windows on each release, so you do not need Rust. The crate is on crates.io.
• A case is a work, and each writing (majority, concurrence, dissent) is a part of it, with its type and author (#313).
• Paths inside a writing: pages of the official reporter, paragraphs and footnotes (#314).
• Rules split a combined or plain-text record into writings and paragraphs, as machine suggestions (#315).
• A citation runs from its paragraph to the subdivision the court wrote (#316).
• A citation carries the decision date and the printing of the Code that it was read in (#317).
• A bare "section N" is read as a citation when the case says which code it refers to (#318).
• carry-reviews carries the reviews of citation links to a rebuilt dataset (#319).
• opinions lists the cases a dataset holds (#308). release-points lists the dates the mirror offers (#292). declare sets what a dataset must cover (#293).
• search counts and lists each occurrence, reads a window at an offset, and matches the forms the text holds, such as "U. S. C." and "§7" (#306, #307, #338).
• A path, bill, work, date or file that the dataset does not hold gives a notice, not an empty result (#305, #326, #337).
• Citations: path and annotations show citations from both ends (#301), cases-citing reads subdivisions and has --json (#302), and a citation of a repealed section is flagged (#310).
• Read-only commands do not lock the dataset (#331).

What it gives

• The words_to_data command, with 27 subcommands to build, grow, read and check a dataset.
• SQLite datasets. A dataset can grow: add-release-points adds Code release points and add-bills adds laws, with no rebuild.
• Links with evidence. A link says what it connects, which method made it, and why. Evidence is never deleted.
• Amendment matching with no language model. Each amending instruction resolves to its Code address from the publisher's markup, and links to its change by address, time window and quoted words. The OLRC classification of each public law is stored as links.
• residue lists the amendments that no link names, with the stage and the reason each stopped.
• Renumbered provisions are recorded as links, so a provision can be followed through a renumbering.
• Reviews. settle records a verdict on a link as its own link. The readers show how each link was decided.
• House roll call votes by the party that each member held on the day of the vote.
• Court opinions from CourtListener, with their U.S.C. citations as links. cases-citing tells which opinions cite a provision, and if the provision changed after the decision.
• Removed: the Python bindings and the annotator prototype. The data model changed too much to keep them.

• Datasets: a set of Code release points and bills, in place of separate diff files.
• Load the full U.S. Code from a folder.
• A Congress.gov client that downloads bill text and bill data.
• Find where a bill mentions the provision that changed (amendment mentions).
• Better parser output: plain quotes in place of curly quotes, and text from non-structural elements.

• Annotations that connect a diff to a bill amendment.
• Similarity scores between amendments and changes.
• Parse source credits.
• More tests, and a more modular design.

• residue and diff see a section added inside a new parent (#336).
• cases-citing reports windows and changes, so that a true line cannot give a wrong answer (#340).
• A bill, work, date or file that the dataset does not hold gives a notice, not an empty result (#337).
• Search folds soft hyphens, ligatures, "§7" and "§ 7", and "U. S." and "U.S." (#338).
• The address reader keeps containers such as "in subsection (c)" (#339).
• Case-law data: read "26 V.S.C." and "U.S.C §", give each dissent its author, and fix page paths that mix two reporters (#341).
• diff does not report a change when the only difference is a soft hyphen (#363).
• The address reader reads "Such section" as the section a sibling amendment named (#364).
• Each clause of an "is amended as follows:" list gets the chapter and section it names (#365).
• A citation of a range of subdivisions links each one (#366).

Next

• Run the benchmark on each change that touches the readers.
• Grade the prose part of each answer with a stronger model.
• Later, compare SLEUTH with an agent that uses web search.

Also open in the map

• Court data, to tell binding authority from persuasive authority.
• A read-only command to find opinions on CourtListener.
• CourtListener bulk data, for more than approximately 1,000 opinions.

• members: list the members, with filters for state, party and chamber.
• Show one member, with terms and the votes cast.
• Show the sponsor and cosponsors of a bill in show-bill.
• Find out if Senate roll call votes can be held at all (#112). Today only House votes are held.

• Show the public law number of a bill, so that "Pub. L. 119-21" finds bill 119-hr-1 (#297).
• Keep reviews and agent links when a dataset is built again from the start (#295).
• Let a dataset declare which document classes it holds (#148), and a gap in time in its scope (#145).
• Put an amendment that is only partly linked on a work list (#271).
• Store the citations that the extractor could not read (#140).

• A bill that renumbers the same paragraphs two times in one section (#230).
• A renumbering that also changes the depth of a provision ("and indenting appropriately") (#162).
• Two clauses of one bill that state the same move (#226), and if a marginal note is part of an amendment (#217).