Formal rules and policies are fundamental in formally specifying a social system: its operation, boundaries, processes, and even ontology. Recent scholarship has highlighted the role of formal policy in collective knowledge creation, game communities, the production of digital public goods, and national social media governance. Researchers have shown interest in how online communities convene tenable self-governance mechanisms to regulate member activities and distribute rights and privileges by designating responsibilities, roles, and hierarchies. We present NLP4Gov, an interactive kit to train and aid scholars and practitioners alike in computational policy analysis. The library explores and integrates methods and capabilities from computational linguistics and NLP to generate semantic and symbolic representations of community policies from text records. Versatile, documented, and accessible, NLP4Gov provides granular and comparative views into institutional structures and interactions, along with other information extraction capabilities for downstream analysis.

翻译：正式规则与政策是社会系统在运行、边界、流程乃至本体层面进行规范形式化表达的基础。近年研究已凸显正式政策在集体知识创造、游戏社群、数字公共产品生产及国家社交媒体治理中的关键作用。学者们对在线社群如何构建可行的自治机制以规范成员行为、通过职责、角色与层级分配权利与特权表现出浓厚兴趣。我们提出NLP4Gov——一个交互式工具包，旨在培训并协助研究者与实践者开展计算政策分析。该工具库探索并整合计算语言学与自然语言处理领域的方法与能力，从文本记录中生成社群政策之语义与符号表征。NLP4Gov兼具通用性、文档完备性与可访问性，为制度结构与互动提供细粒度与比较性视角，并支持其他信息提取功能以服务于下游分析。