Software
FtaCoder
Trade agreements have grown from tariff schedules into thousand-page rulebooks. FtaCoder reads them so you don't have to: text analysis and machine learning that codes what each agreement covers — used in the Journal of Economic Geography paper on business travel.
What 450 trade agreements talk about
Share of agreements covering each topic; the darker segment is also subject to dispute settlement.
Look up an agreement
All 450 agreements of the TOTA corpus, coded by FtaCoder.
Live demo
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The core of FtaCoder is keyword and pattern matching over the full text of agreements (the TOTA corpus), refined with classifiers for dispute-settlement language. This demo runs the same pattern matching, client-side, on four well-known agreements — pick a topic or write your own patterns.
Corpus: Text of Trade Agreements (TOTA), CC BY-NC 4.0. The full pipeline — including the machine-learning classification of dispute-settlement clauses — is in the GitHub repository.