[Tutor] Picking up citations

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Feb 10 23:54:10 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
<dineshbvadhia at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Kent
>
> The citation without the name is perfect (and this appears to be how most
> citation parsers work).  There are two issues in the test run:
>
> 1.  The parallel citation 422 U.S. 490, 499 n. 10, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 2205 n.
> 10, 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975) is resolved as:
>
> 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
> 499 n. 10 (1975)
> 95 S.Ct. 2197 (1975)
> 2205 n. 10 (1975)
> 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975)

> 2. It doesn't parse the last citation ie. 463 U.S. 29, 43, 103 S.Ct. 2856,
> 2867, 77 L.Ed.2d 443 (1983).  I tested it on another sample text and it
> missed the last citation too.

Another attempt attached, it recognizes the n. separator and gets the last item.

Kent


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