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Differentiation and Empirical Analysis of Reference Types in Legal Documents

  • Authors: Bernhard Waltl / Jörg Landthaler / Florian Matthes
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Germany
  • Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government
  • Citation: Bernhard Waltl / Jörg Landthaler / Florian Matthes, Differentiation and Empirical Analysis of Reference Types in Legal Documents, in: Jusletter IT Flash 17. August 2017
This paper proposes an extensible model distinguishing between four different reference types within legal documents: fully-explicit, semi-explicit, implicit, and tacit references. Based on the German laws we conducted a case study to evaluate the model and proposed differentiation. The evaluation shows that the consideration of additional reference types heavily impacts the resulting network. This work argues for the necessity of detailed differentiation between references throughout and within legal documents.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Related Work
  • 3. A Conceptual Framework for Reference Types in Legal Texts
  • 4. Extension of the Bibliographic Model
  • 5. Analysis and Implementation of the Reference Type Model
  • 5.1. Full-explicit References
  • 5.2. Semi-explicit References
  • 5.3. Implicit References
  • 5.4. Tacit References
  • 5.5. Consolidation and Technology Stack
  • 6. Empirical Analysis of German Laws
  • 6.1. Implementation of Navigation, Exploration and Evaluation Prototype
  • 6.2. Empirical Analysis of Reference Types: Dataset, Analysis, and Evaluation
  • 7. Conclusion and Outlook
  • 8. Acknowledgment

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