Basically, what we want is software that could eat a legal dictionary and spit out a legal thesaurus.
Enter U.S. Open Data and the OpenGov Foundation. Those organizations are both dedicated to using open source tools to make legal and government data more accessible and more easily manipulated. They have put out a call for a vendor to help them build a legal thesaurus and turn that mess of a definition you see above into a list of likely synonyms, along with something that indicates the strength of the correlation between the term being defined and its possibly synonyms.
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