A Semantic Annotation Model for Arabic Legal Texts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Berrazega ◽  
Rim Faiz ◽  
Asma Bouhafs ◽  
Ghassan Mourad
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Legal Texts

Semantic annotation of Italian legal texts

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Venturi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Statistical Dependency ◽  
Legal Knowledge Representation ◽  
Dependency Parser

The FrameNet approach to text semantic annotation can be a reliable model to make the linguistic information and semantic content of legal texts explicit. This hypothesis is discussed and empirically demonstrated through a trial of annotating a corpus of Italian legal texts. This study aims to show that FrameNet is particularly appropriate to provide new perspectives for legal language studies and for legal knowledge representation tasks. Moreover, by relying on the output of a statistical dependency parser, the FrameNet-based annotation methodology presented here can be used successfully in the automatic semantic processing of legal texts.

scholarly journals Frame Semantics and legal corpora annotation

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson Bertoldi ◽  
Rove Chishman
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
Legal Texts

This paper presents a theoretical discussion about the use of Frame Semantics as corpora annotation paradigm. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the applicability of Frame Semantics theory and FrameNet paradigm for the semantic annotation of legal texts. The work presented in this paper is an initial step in the construction of a treebank for the Brazilian legal language.

An Approach for Automatic Categorization of Arabic Normative Provisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1860007
Author(s):  
Ines Berrazega ◽  
Rim Faiz
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
French Language ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Automatic Categorization ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Legal Texts

This paper studies the problem of automatic categorization of Arabic normative provisions. An automatic categorization approach based on a semantic annotation model is proposed. Coupling a taxonomy of Arabic normative provisions’ categories, an Arabic normative terminological base and a rule-based semantic annotator, the proposed semantic annotation model enables the automatic categorization of normative provisions in Arabic legal texts. The robustness and the language independency of the proposed approach are also studied. Robustness is measured with the comparison of the constructed model against Machine Learning (ML) approaches. The language independency level is evaluated through the adaptation of the proposed model to the French language. The performance of the approach is evaluated in terms of Precision, Recall and F-score. The obtained results for the different experiments are very promising.

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Approach to Semantic Annotation for Search of Legal Texts – An Experiment on GDPR

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeline Nazarenko ◽  
François Lévy ◽  
Adam Wyner
Keyword(s):  
Gold Standard ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Plain Text ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Further Development

Tools must be developed to help draft, consult, and explore textual legal sources. Between statistical information retrieval and the formalization of textual rules for automated legal reasoning, we defend a more pragmatic third way that enriches legal texts with a coarse-grained, interpretation-neutral, semantic annotation layer. The aim is that legal texts can be enriched on a large scale at a reasonable cost, paving the way for new search capabilities that will facilitate mining of legal sources. This new approach is illustrated on a proof-of-concept experiment that consisted in semantically annotating a significant part of the French version of the GDPR. The paper presents the design methodology of the annotation language, a first version of a Core Legal Annotation Language (CLAL), together with its formalization in XML, the gold standard resulting from the annotation of GDPR, and examples of user questions that can be better answered by semantic than by plain text search. This experimentation demonstrates the potential of the proposed approach and provides a basis for further development. All resources developed for that GDPR experiment are language independent and are publicly available.

Unseen Laws- A Quantitative Approach to Developments in North Korea’s Legal System

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-62
Author(s):  
Martin Weiser
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Broad Policy ◽  
Sophisticated Analysis ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Law Making

The position of law in North Korean politics and society has been a long concern of scholars as well as politicians and activists. Some argue it would be more important to understand the extra-legal rules that run North Korea like the Ten Principles on the leadership cult as they supersede any formal laws or the constitution.1 But the actual legal developments in North Korea, which eventually also mediate those leading principles and might even limit their reach, has so far been insufficiently explored. It is easy to point to North Korean secrecy as a main reason for this lacuna. But the numerous available materials and references on North Korean legislation available today have, however, not been fully explored yet, which has severely impeded progress in the field. Even publications officially released by North Korea to foreigners offer surprisingly detailed information on legal changes and the evolution of the law-making institutions. This larger picture of legal developments already draws a more detailed picture of the institutional developments in North Korean law and the broad policy fields that had been regulated from early on in contrast to the often-assumed absence of legislation in important fields like copyright, civil law or investment. It also shows that different to a monolithic system, various law-making institutions exist and fulfil discernably different legal responsibilities. Next to this limitation in content, scholars in the field currently also have not used all approaches legal developments in the North Korea could be analysed and interpreted with. Going beyond the reading of legal texts or speculating about known titles of still unavailable legislation, quantitative approaches can be applied ranging from the simple counting of laws to more sophisticated analysis of legislative numbering often provided with legislation. Understanding the various institutions as flexible in their roles and hence adoptable to shifts in leadership and policy agendas can also provide a more realistic picture of legal practices in North Korea.

When Beruriah Met Aisha

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Shari Golberg
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Legal Texts

My dissertation attends to the complex and very fraught relationship that women have with their sacred scriptures by examining overlapping conceptions of religious law and legal reform among Jewish and Muslim women who actively study and interpret traditional texts. My project hopes to address what it is that animates Muslim and Jewish women’s interests in textual studies and how close engagement with religious legal texts might contribute to their development as particularized religious subjects.

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