Automatic classification of provisions in legislative texts

  • Authors:
  • E. Francesconi;A. Passerini

  • Affiliations:
  • ITTIG - CNR, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell'Informazione Giuridica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy;DSI - Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law - AI & law in eGovernment and eDemocracy part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Legislation usually lacks a systematic organization which makes the management and the access to norms a hard problem to face. A more analytic semantic unit of reference (provision) for legislative texts was identified. A model of provisions (provisions types and their arguments) allows to describe the semantics of rules in legislative texts. It can be used to develop advanced semantic-based applications and services on legislation. In this paper an automatic bottom-up strategy to qualify existing legislative texts in terms of provision types is described.