Abstract
This chapter explores the building of a multibridge between legal texts and their representations in computers. We hold that in the transformation from a legal text to the formalisation of that legal text, the path connecting the legal text to the computer implementation has intermediate steps. Formalising legal meanings reveals additional goals and makes them explicit. The thesis is that symbolisation and visualisation precede formalisation on the way to the representation of legal knowledge. Specifically, the open texture of the law can be decreased. Hence, visualisation serves as a syntactic bridge to technology.
Based on Čyras and Lachmayer (2013).
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Reed and Murray (2018, p. vii) continue: “The answer has never successfully identified ‘the law’ but, at best, ‘some of these laws’. At first we thought this was a defect in our own understandings, but over time we have come to the view that it is in fact the defect in law itself.”
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See Wikipedia, the V-Model, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model.
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Cyras, V., Lachmayer, F. (2023). Multiphase Transformation: From Legal Text to Program . In: Essays on the Visualisation of Legal Informatics. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27957-7_27
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