An alternative method for computerized legal text restructuring

  • Authors:

  • Ermo Täks;Ahti Lohk

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology;Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Legal quality is a manifold issue; the presented research is focusing on the structural and referential aspects. Focusing on verbs and nouns, the text is turned into graphs, opening a compressed visual view of the legal act and offers several useful features: • information-enriched graphical representation of the law • search tool • mind map to open visual insights • input to ontology • comparison basis between legal acts • basis for restructuring the legislation