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  • CCP Training Now Available on Sartori Suite of Concept Analysis Tools

    The Comparative Constitutions Project held an online training on its new open-source digital tools for concept analysis. CCP’s concept integration team—Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, and Guillermo Pérez—gave demos of the tools and walked through the kinds of questions that can be explored through the four new tools below: The training slides below include screen-capture demos of the…

  • New Concept Repository Maps Topics across Law, Democracy, and Constitutions

    CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched a new concept repository that allows researchers to explore networks of concepts across the field of comparative law. Sartori.network Concept Repository The new Sartori.network platform allows researchers to upload, map, and compare concepts from research groups spanning law, democracy, and constitutions. This provides a platform for researchers to ask, for example: What is the…

  • New Digital Tools Aid Comparative Constitutional Research

    CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched two new digital tools to aid researchers working with large corpora like constitutions and court rulings. The team’s suite of open-source concept analysis tools includes a new constitution comparison tool (to assess the textual and thematic similarity of constitutions), a new domain comparison tool (to expand the scope of topics tracked in a corpus), and…

  • New Topic Comparison Tool Solves Core Research Challenge

    CCP’s Concept Integration in Comparative Law project has launched a new tool that solves a core challenge faced by researchers working with large corpora like constitutions or court rulings. It develops a new approach by combining the efficiency of automated text analysis with the accuracy of domain expertise when identifying and tracking new topics in a corpus. This new Segments-as-Topics tool allows…