lexnlp.extract.de.citations: Extracting citations

The lexnlp.extract.de.citations module contains methods that allow for the extraction of “BGBl” citations from text. Sample citations that are covered by this module include:

• BGBl. I S. 434
• Artikel 2 des Gesetzes vom 20. Juli 2017 (BGBl. I S. 2789)
• vom 2. Januar 2002 (BGBl. I S. 42, 2909; 2003 I S. 738)
• Artikel 2 Absatz 1 Satz 1 Nr. 1 bis 3 Buchstabe b und c des Gesetzes v. 2. Januar 2002, BGBl. I S. 2477

The full list of current unit test cases can be found here: https://github.com/LexPredict/lexpredict-lexnlp/tree/master/lexnlp/extract/de/tests/test_citations

Extracting citations

lexnlp.extract.de.citations.get_citation_list(text)

Example

>>> import lexnlp.extract.de.citations
>>> text = " vom 15. Mai 2007 (BGBl. I S. 733 (1967)), die ."
>>> print(lexnlp.extract.de.citations.get_citation_list(text))
[{'location_start': 0,
  'location_end': 41,
  'text': ' vom 15. Mai 2007 (BGBl. I S. 733 (1967))',
  'article': '',
  'number': '',
  'subparagraph': '',
  'sentence': '',
  'paragraph': '',
  'letter': '',
  'date': '15. Mai 2007',
  'part': 'I',
  'page': '733',
  'year': '1967'}]