Search results for: “semantic indexing and law”
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LexDania
LexDania Introduction In the last 20 years, large scale electronic collections of legal documents are increasing their dissemination in the public administrations, especially in those entitled to provide official and legal publication of the legal resources. In most countries, there is a purpose to produce a digital counterpart of their traditional representation on paper. But…
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SDU BWB
SDU BWB The Dutch SDU BWB standard. This XML format is currently used for encoding the laws in the Dutch Basiswettenbestand (BWB) database, that is a large database containing almost all Dutch laws and decisions. SDU BWB, as an XML format, is used for encoding the laws in the Dutch Basiswettenbestand (BWB) database, which is…
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MetaLex
MetaLex MetaLex (or CEN Metalex) is a generic and extensible framework for the XML encoding of the structure of, and meta- data about, legal and paralegal documents (obviously this includes legislation and case law, but also written public decisions, internal and external business regulations and contracts) that function as a source of law. Iti is…
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Estrella Project
Estrella Project The European project for Standardized Transparent Representations in order to Extend Legal Accessibility (Estrella) The Estrella project brought together a core group of researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and law (AI&Law). The ambition of the Estrella team was to provide an open standards based solution covering all important constituents of a…
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LegalXML
LegalXML Introduction to LegalXML LegalXML is a collection and a developer of open, public standards for the electronic exchange of legal data using extensible Markup Language, created by different LegalXML Technical Committees, covering a wide spectrum of legal materials. The LegalXML mission is, therefore, to create open, non proprietary technical standards for exchange of information…
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Legal Dictionary
Legal Dictionary “When [legal professionals] look up a word in a dictionary and they often do they are as likely as not to select a poor dictionary.” – Max Radin (“A Juster Justice, a More Lawful Law,” ) What Is a Legal Dictionary? A legal dictionary provides the legal definition of a word or term.…
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Thesaurus
A Thesaurus is an online database or a book of synonyms and near-synonyms in a written language, usually arranged conceptually, although dictionary arrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852, was compiled by Peter Mark Roget. For an online […]
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Formal Legal Reasoning
Formal Legal Reasoning Formalism about Legal Reasoning According to Philpapers, “Formalism about Legal Reasoning” refers to the use of (often logic-based) formalisms to shed light on legal reasoning. “Formal Models of Legal Reasoning,” in contrast refers to the use of such formalisms to model actual legal reasoning. Some works fit into both categories. The former…
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LLRX
LLRX by Brittany Schott LLRX.com is an online journal that provides legal and other professionals with up-to-date information on research and technology-related issues. The best part is LLRX is completely free! LLRX.com provides monthly installments of new guides, articles, and topical resources. The areas in which LLRX covers can be categorized into three broad topics:…
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Legal Information Retrieval
Retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes or other structures to facilitate retrieval, but may not include any human intervention such as manual indexing of […]
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JURIVOC
JURIVOC: Swiss Legal Thesaurus Introduction to JURIVOC JURIVOC is a legal thesaurus of the Federal Supreme Court and the former Federal Supreme Insurance Court (currently the Social Law Courts of the Federal Supreme Court) intended for use in the intellectual indexing of laws, case law and legal doctrine. This thesaurus was developed in collaboration with…
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Legal Thesaurus
A legal Thesaurus is an effective tool for the organization of legal materials. The UNCITRAL Thesaurus on the CISG,[1] provides a helpful outline of the contents of each Article of the Sales Convention. The Roget’s Thesaurus provides a list of synonyms. But they are not a controlled vocabulary, containing all the possible preferred terms and…