First-Year Law Students' Court Memoranda

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Larson, Brian N., 2024, "First-Year Law Students' Court Memoranda", https://hdl.handle.net/11272.1/AB2/CC9MT6, Abacus Data Network, V1

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Description	Abstract Introduction First-Year Law Students' Court Memoranda consists of 197 English law student writing samples of legal briefs annotated for certain characteristics along with accompanying survey responses by the student writers. The briefs were created in a law school writing class at two law schools in the US Midwest during the 2011-12 academic year. Students who agreed to participate in this study uploaded their briefs to an online survey instrument and answered questions regarding their age, gender, level of education, most recent writing course and method of learning English. The study's purpose was to apply natural language processing approaches to determine any differences in the briefs' language attributable to the students' self-reported genders. Data The writings are the year-end memoranda of law to a court required in the two legal writing classes. All students were writing in the same genre and in many instances, on the same hypothetical legal case. The samples were imported into the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) and annotated by two human coders who identified large text segments specific to the legal genre in which the students wrote, such as text headings, citations, block quotes and footnotes. Writing samples are presented as MS Word documents and annotations and survey responses are presented in XML format. The data has been anonymized to remove names and other identifying information about the student participants. (2017-02-15)
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Keyword	Linguistics
Notes	DCMI Type(s): Text Application(s): Machine learning Language(s): English Language ID(s): eng Metadata automatically created from https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T03 [01 Oct 2024]

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Dataset Persistent ID	hdl:11272.1/AB2/CC9MT6
Publication Date	2024-10-25
Title	First-Year Law Students' Court Memoranda
Other ID	Linguistic Data Consortium: LDC2017T03 ISBN: 1-58563-786-6 ISLRN: 141-827-463-794-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/esge-nm35
Author	Larson, Brian N.
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Description	Abstract Introduction First-Year Law Students' Court Memoranda consists of 197 English law student writing samples of legal briefs annotated for certain characteristics along with accompanying survey responses by the student writers. The briefs were created in a law school writing class at two law schools in the US Midwest during the 2011-12 academic year. Students who agreed to participate in this study uploaded their briefs to an online survey instrument and answered questions regarding their age, gender, level of education, most recent writing course and method of learning English. The study's purpose was to apply natural language processing approaches to determine any differences in the briefs' language attributable to the students' self-reported genders. Data The writings are the year-end memoranda of law to a court required in the two legal writing classes. All students were writing in the same genre and in many instances, on the same hypothetical legal case. The samples were imported into the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) and annotated by two human coders who identified large text segments specific to the legal genre in which the students wrote, such as text headings, citations, block quotes and footnotes. Writing samples are presented as MS Word documents and annotations and survey responses are presented in XML format. The data has been anonymized to remove names and other identifying information about the student participants. (2017-02-15)
Subject	Other
Keyword	Linguistics (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Notes	DCMI Type(s): Text Application(s): Machine learning Language(s): English Language ID(s): eng Metadata automatically created from https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T03 [01 Oct 2024]
Producer	Linguistic Data Consortium https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Distribution Date	2017-02-15
Deposit Date	2017-02-15
Series	LDC: Linguistic Data Consortium
Data Sources	Essays; Legal documents

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