Wolfgang Alschner /
Aleksander Umov
This paper introduces an infrastructure for the analysis of legal metadata and textual data on international investment and trade disputes. The developed database architecture consists of three main components: (1) a WebCrawler of two key web sites for international economic law dispute information; (2) a document analyzer to transform PDFs into text files, identifying structure and footnotes within document, finding references to other disputes and storing texts as XML; and (3) multiple user interfaces to allow different user types to access the data. The architecture allows users to launch metadata queries and/or to investigate textual corpora. It therefore provides a versatile new framework for international economic law research from various angles and disciplines.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Germany
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Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government
Erich Schweighofer
A model for a three-level communication of law is presented consisting of textual, visual and logic-ontological representation. Whereas much practice exists in publication in text, more research is required to refine the idea of a broader and more diversified publication. Costs and benefits have to be properly evaluated in the future, based on further projects. Experimental implementations have shown advantages of more appropriate representation but also higher costs. Stakeholders of legal information have to discuss ways of sharing this burden, appropriate to expected significant gains for legal practice.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Austria
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Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government
Blaise Dévaud /
Franz Kummer
The paper presents the main problems related to lawyers’ due diligence in the context of the legal search in the Swiss judicial decisions. It starts with a brief discussion of the general problem of information overload, and then delves into two specific problems related to the leading cases of the Swiss federal courts and to the uncertainty about the binding force of the decisions of the Swiss cantonal courts. The paper moves on to the solutions, describing the general conditions for a high quality legal search in the Swiss case law databases and proposing two particular improvements (automatic recognition of similar decisions and automatic links between decisions from the same case).
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Category: Articles
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Region: Switzerland
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Field of law: LegalTech
Peter Schmitz /
Enrico Francesconi /
Brahim Batouche /
Vivien Touly /
Ginevra Peruginelli
This paper describes the pilot project on Linked Open Data (LOD) and e-Participation, promoted by the European Parliament and developed by the Publications Office of the European Union (OP). By exploiting the LOD service for pre-legislative documents available at OP, the project aims at allowing citizens to actively participate in public consultations within the EU decision-making process, by providing comments and amendments on pre-legislative documents, as well expressing their sentiments on them. The data produced will be available as LOD; for this reason a specific semantic approach able to describe documents and users activities is implemented.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Italy, Luxembourg
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Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government
Bernhard Waltl /
Jörg Landthaler /
Florian Matthes
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.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Germany
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Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government
Erich Schweighofer /
Michał Araszkiewicz /
Bernhard Waltl
In December 2016, the 2nd Workshop on Legal Data Analysis (LDA2016) of the Central European Institute of Legal Informatics (CEILI) took place in conjunction with the JURIX2016 Conference in Antibes. Seven papers were accepted for presentation and publication with a strong focus on tools for representation, analysis and reasoning with legal data in information systems.
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Category: Conference Proceedings
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Region: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany
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Field of law: Big Data, Open Data & Open Government