AuthoritySpoke version 0.7 is available on PyPI, bringing with it a new data input format using YAML files. For documentation on that feature, check out the just-published user guide or the API documentation. With this blog post I’ll go more into my reasoning in making the changes, and where I see AuthoritySpoke going next. I planned for Author... Read More

Around the beginning of 2021, the Free Law Project extracted the code that it’s been using to link case citations within CourtListener, and released it as a new open source Python package called Eyecite. I think Eyecite could become the most widely useful open source legal analysis tool to be released by anyone so far. It seems to have incredibl... Read More

One of the most difficult AuthoritySpoke features for users to understand has been the ability for the Factors of legal rules to have “generic context” affecting how the rules can be compared to one another. This article will try to make that concept a little clearer, and also describe how to use contexts with comparison methods like .means(), .... Read More

I’m happy to announce I’ve published a new Python package called Nettlesome, for creating computable semantic tags that describe the contents of documents. When you browse through Nettlesome’s documentation, you’ll see a lot of concepts that look like refugees from logic programming, like Terms and Predicates. And yet Nettlesome doesn’t have any... Read More

The AuthoritySpoke library provides you with Python classes that you can use to represent a limited subset of English statements, so you can create computable annotations representing aspects of legal reasoning and factfinding. In the newly-released version 0.5 of AuthoritySpoke, I’ve redesigned the interface for creating these phrases to use Py... Read More