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Computationally Assisted Regulatory Participation, Michael A. Livermore, Vladimir Eidelman, Brian Grom
Computationally Assisted Regulatory Participation, Michael A. Livermore, Vladimir Eidelman, Brian Grom
Notre Dame Law Review
With the increased politicization of agency rulemaking and the reduced cost of participating in the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, administrative agencies have, in recent years, found themselves deluged in a flood of public comments. In this Article, we argue that this deluge presents both challenges and opportunities, and we explore how advances in natural language processing technologies can help agencies address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities created by the recent growth of public participation in the regulatory process. We also examine how scholars of public bureaucracies can use this important new publicly available data to better understand how …