29.1452, Disc: Software Development Proposal

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1452. Tue Apr 03 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1452, Disc: Software Development Proposal

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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:34:51
From: Eli Levine [elilevin at buffalo.edu]
Subject: Software Development Proposal

 
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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