[Tutor] Picking up citations

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

You're probably right Paul.  But, my assumption is that the originators of legal documents pay a little more attention to getting the citation correct and in the right format then say Joe Bloggs does when completing an address block.  

I think that Kent has reached the end of his commendable effort.  I'll test out the latest version in anger over the coming weeks on large numbers of legal documents.

Dinesh



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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:29:20 -0600
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Dinesh and Kent -

I've been lurking along as you run this problem to ground.  The syntax you
are working on looks very slippery, and reminds me of some of the issues I
had writing a generic street address parser with pyparsing
(http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/file/view/streetAddressParser.py).  Mailing
list companies spend beaucoup $$$ trying to parse addresses in order to
filter duplicates, to group by zip code, street, neighborhood, etc., and
this citation format looks similarly scary.  

Congratulations on getting to a 95% solution using PLY.

-- Paul



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