TY - GEN
T1 - Terminological and ontological analysis of European directives
T2 - 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
AU - Ajani, Gianmaria
AU - Lesmo, Leonardo
AU - Boella, Guido
AU - Mazzei, Alessandro
AU - Rossi, Piercarlo
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper describes the philosophy behind our tool called "Legal Taxonomy Syllabus", the analytical instruments it provides and some case studies. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus allows to build legal dictionaries in a bottom up fashion starting from the annotation of legal terms by legal terminological experts and to let legal ontology engineers refine the resulting taxonomies of concepts. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus and its analytical tools provide help to lawyers to study the peculiarities of European Union Directives concerning the polysemy of legal terms, and the terminological and conceptual misalignment. By means of two case studies we show how the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus can help the processes of drafting and translating of the Directives.
AB - This paper describes the philosophy behind our tool called "Legal Taxonomy Syllabus", the analytical instruments it provides and some case studies. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus allows to build legal dictionaries in a bottom up fashion starting from the annotation of legal terms by legal terminological experts and to let legal ontology engineers refine the resulting taxonomies of concepts. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus and its analytical tools provide help to lawyers to study the peculiarities of European Union Directives concerning the polysemy of legal terms, and the terminological and conceptual misalignment. By means of two case studies we show how the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus can help the processes of drafting and translating of the Directives.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548020551&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1276318.1276327
DO - 10.1145/1276318.1276327
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34548020551
SN - 1595936807
SN - 9781595936806
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
SP - 43
EP - 48
BT - Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Proceedings
Y2 - 4 June 2007 through 8 June 2007
ER -