This short guide will teach you to read an FCC NPRM with grep
. The underlying assumption is that stop words can be used to find key pieces of information in a large body of text. In the case of a notice of proposed rulemaking, those key pieces of information are tentative conclusions and requests for comment.
FCC NPRMs often use the word "we" when referring to the office or bureau responsible for the document, or sometimes even the Commission itself. With this knowledge, it's possible to find out the types of actions the FCC is taking.
$ grep -R "We" corpus.txt --no-filename