A new machine-readable corpus called LOCUS has been created to address the challenge of accessing and understanding U.S. local ordinances. This corpus contains over 9,000 city and county codes that have been OCR'd and scored for opacity and paternalism. An additional 7,000 codes are held back for future benchmarks to test model memorization versus retrieval of local legal information. AI
IMPACT Enables AI models to better understand and process local legal information, potentially improving access to justice.
RANK_REASON Creation of a new corpus for legal research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]
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