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Free API and MCP Tools for FOLIO Legal Ontology

Free API and MCP Tools for FOLIO Legal Ontology

ALEA on Thu Mar 19 2026

A new MCP server for AI agents, alongside an updated public API and Python library, make FOLIO's legal ontology easier than ever for courts and legal organizations to adopt.

Building Tools for Community Engagement: Introducing the Nuisance Map

Building Tools for Community Engagement: Introducing the Nuisance Map

ALEA on Thu Mar 19 2026

ALEA Institute launches the Nuisance Map, an open-source tool for Michigan residents to document nuisance impacts from data centers and infrastructure development, as part of an expanded community engagement initiative focused on transparency and balanced development.

ALEA Institute Receives 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status

ALEA Institute Receives 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status

ALEA on Tue Feb 17 2026

The ALEA Institute has received its official IRS determination letter granting 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status as a public charity, with an effective date of August 15, 2024.

Moratorium Nation: Surveying Infrastructure Development Moratoria Across the United States

Moratorium Nation: Surveying Infrastructure Development Moratoria Across the United States

ALEA on Mon Feb 16 2026

New research identifies 116 infrastructure development moratoria across 30 states, providing the first comprehensive cross-sector survey of how communities are responding to the rapid deployment of data centers, renewables, and battery storage.

KL3M Data Project: Copyright-Clean AI Training Resources

KL3M Data Project: Copyright-Clean AI Training Resources

ALEA on Tue Apr 15 2025

Introducing the KL3M Data Project: a comprehensive collection of legally sound training resources for large language models spanning 132+ million documents.

Improving Legal Text Analysis with Precise Sentence Boundary Detection

Improving Legal Text Analysis with Precise Sentence Boundary Detection

ALEA on Tue Apr 08 2025

Introducing NUPunkt and CharBoundary: two specialized libraries that dramatically improve sentence boundary detection in legal documents.

Domain-Specific Tokenizers: Enhancing Efficiency for Legal and Financial NLP

Domain-Specific Tokenizers: Enhancing Efficiency for Legal and Financial NLP

ALEA on Fri Mar 21 2025

Our research demonstrates how specialized tokenizers can achieve up to 83% efficiency gains for domain-specific terminology while maintaining semantic coherence.

KL3M Data Gallery

KL3M Data Gallery

ALEA on Tue Feb 25 2025

Exploring Clean Data with the KL3M Data Gallery

Introducing the Federal Bill Statistics Project

Introducing the Federal Bill Statistics Project

ALEA on Mon Dec 23 2024

Announcing the launch of usbills.ai - an open platform for analyzing US federal legislation

KL3M on HuggingFace

KL3M on HuggingFace

ALEA on Sun Nov 10 2024

Our first Fairly Trained L-certified models are now publicly available.

Announcing the ALEA Institute

Announcing the ALEA Institute

ALEA on Sun Aug 04 2024

Artificial intelligence is changing our world. But will it be for the better?

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