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Offense Text Auto-Coder (OTAC) - Automated offense coder from offense charge text strings used for the BJS National Pretrial Reporting Program

U.S. Department of Justice — Office of Justice Programs · Other justice agency · 2025

status as stated: DeployedUse-case inventory entryNLP / classification

The DOJ 2025 inventory lists Offense Text Auto-Coder (OTAC) - Automated offense coder from offense charge text strings used for the BJS National Pretrial Reporting Program for U.S. Department of Justice — Office of Justice Programs. The row states the stage as Deployed; it classifies the use case as…

The purpose of this tool is to improve description and comparability of offense charges across jurisdictions When using justice administrative data from various jurisdictions localities states and federal the way offenses are described i e the exact text strings used vary greatly For example assault and battery may be spelled out or abbreviated in novel ways such as A B A B A B A B battery aslt etc This tool is used to facilitate grouping identical concepts under one…

Status date given by the source: 01/2024.

Official record: justice.gov · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: doj-inventory-2025
Notes: DOJ spreadsheet row DOJ-0203; original component field: Department of Justice / OJP.

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