Exercises

Go back to the Supreme Court of Canada data.

Imagine you work for a tech startup and have been asked to extract some meta data – data about the case – from the full text of Supreme Court judgments. Attempt to create a set of regular expressions to extract meta data from these cases relating to:

• a) the official case citation
• b) the date of the decisions
• c) the names of the disputants

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Hint: Start with a sample case before applying your code to the entire dataset.