Pilot corpus — not yet a full historical finding

Chapter III Judicial Power Corpus — Pilot Dashboard

Testing whether dictionary-based corpus analysis can track the expansion, restraint, and doctrinal development of judicial power in Australian constitutional cases.

Dictionary Signals

Rates are normalised per 100,000 words across the 20-case pilot. They indicate dictionary behaviour in this test set, not a historical trend.

Case Comparison

The expansion score is a composite diagnostic from the v0 dictionaries. It is a prioritisation aid for review, not a finding about doctrinal change.

Dictionary-By-Case Heatmap

Cells are column-scaled, so each dictionary can show whether expected cases light up against its own distribution.

KWIC Context Review

Manual validation is the academic control layer: accepted, rejected, and uncertain judgments should be reviewed before scaling.

Reviewer

Local review mode

Pilot Charts

These charts help evaluate dictionary behaviour and case-level signal. The year chart is labelled as pilot distribution only.

Hits per 100k by dictionarypilot rate

Hits per 100k by caseall dictionaries

Expansion vs restraint score by casediagnostic only

Pilot distribution only — not a trend claimby year

Pilot Findings

Method signalThe 20-case pilot shows whether the dictionaries are detecting plausible Chapter III language.

Validation nextThe next step is manual validation of KWIC contexts and refinement of false positives before scaling.

Scope cautionNo historical trend should be inferred from this pilot sample alone.

Generated from v0 dictionary scan outputs in data/processed/chapter_iii_v0. On the live Cloudflare dashboard, KWIC validation dropdowns are shared through the review API; local file views fall back to this browser only.