Engineering Blog
Technical deep dives into how we parse, process, and serve the Congressional Record.
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5 articlesA Dictionary of Congressional Record Formatting Problems
A running catalogue of the typos, printing errors and layout conventions that make the Record difficult to parse.
Parsing the Congressional Record Ain't Easy
A field report on the cases that broke our pipeline.
Compressing Documents into LoRA Adapters
Testing whether a small per-document LoRA adapter can act as compact document memory with citation-aware answers.
Timestamp Identification for Clip Cutting
How we locate the exact start and end times for Congressional Record statements in floor video.
Parsing the Congressional Record: Speaker Identification
Identifying speakers in the Congressional Record—and why a simple regex wasn't enough.