What is the ScholarsEdge Legislation Tool?

Scholars face the immense task of navigating complex legal, regulatory, and legislative texts. Traditional search methods often fail to capture all relevant information, leaving researchers overwhelmed by unrelated data or missing critical details.

This is an AI-powered tool developed by IHS to help researchers, policy analysts, and other users explore and compare laws, regulations, and bills across different states. Unlike basic keyword-based tools, we use advanced language processing to understand the text you provide or the concepts you specify—enabling you to discover relevant legislative documents, even when they’re phrased in different ways.

1. Similarity Search:

   • Paste a snippet of legal text (like a clause from a bill) to find similarly worded legislation in other jurisdictions.

   • Ideal for tracking model legislation or spotting parallel language across states.

2. Concept Search:

   • Enter a set of ideas, or upload zipped PDFs/TXTs, and let the AI locate documents containing those ideas.

   • Great for researching broader topics that might be described differently across states.

3. Search Sensitivity:

   • Adjust how strictly ScholarsEdge filters for related documents, from Low (broader) to High (more focused).

4. Prompt Match vs. Percent Match:

   • Percent Match shows how much overlap there is between your input (text or concepts) and a returned document.

   • Prompt Match is True or False, depending on whether the document actually addresses the goal outlined in your User Prompt.

5. Real-Time Notifications & Tracking:

   • Subscribe to any saved search to get email alerts when relevant legislation changes (e.g., new amendments or committee movements).

Whether you’re performing a deep dive into gig economy legislation or looking for model language in data privacy bills, ScholarsEdge Legislation offers a streamlined, AI-driven way to focus on the content that truly matters to your research.