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Dataset Alignment and Lexicalization to Support Multilingual Analysis of Legal Documents

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AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems (AICOL 2015, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2017, AICOL 2017)

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Abstract

The result of the EU is a complex, multilingual, multicultural and yet united environment, requiring solid integration policies and actions targeted at simplifying cross-language and cross-cultural knowledge access. The legal domain is a typical case in which both the linguistic and the conceptual aspects mutually interweave into a knowledge barrier that is hard to break. In the context of the ISA2 funded project “Public Multilingual Knowledge Infrastructure” (PMKI) we are addressing Semantic Interoperability at both the conceptual and lexical level, by developing a set of coordinated instruments for advanced lexicalization of RDF resources (be them ontologies, thesauri and datasets in general) and for alignment of their content. In this paper, we describe the objectives of the project and the concrete actions, specifically in the legal domain, that will create a platform for multilingual cross-jurisdiction accessibility to legal content in the EU.

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Notes

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    https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/

  2. 2.

    https://www.senato.it/3235?testo_generico=745

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    http://eurovoc.europa.eu/

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    It would be more appropriate to adopt the term “reference dataset” (including thus also SKOS thesauri and datasets in general), to express data containing the logical symbols for describing a certain domain. In line with the traditional name OntoLex (and thus the ontology-lexicon dualism), we will however often refer to them with the term ontology.

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    http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/

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    http://linguistics.okfn.org/

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    http://linguistic-lod.org/llod-cloud

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    http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_i_eis_en.pdf

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    http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf

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    http://termcoord.eu/iate/

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    Armando Stellato, Manuel Fiorelli, Andrea Turbati & Tiziano Lorenzetti

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    Peter Schmitz, Enrico Francesconi, Najeh Hajlaoui & Brahim Batouche

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Stellato, A. et al. (2018). Dataset Alignment and Lexicalization to Support Multilingual Analysis of Legal Documents. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_17

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