Visualization and structure analysis of legislative acts: a case study on the law of obligations

Authors:
Innar Liiv;Anton Vedeshin;Ermo Täks
Affiliations:
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia;Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia;Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper introduces visualization methods for an initial approximation of the structure in any legislative act, procedures for relevance calculation and metrics for calculating the distance between the sections. To evaluate the methodology in real world scenarios, experimental results for the law of obligations are included and analyzed. The results of the study show that it is possible to get insightful and interpretable results when analyzing only the inner-structure of the legislative act constructed by references between the sections. Methods and metrics presented in this paper can be directly applied to current keyword-based searching systems of legal texts for relevance ranking enhancement.