Abstract
Regulation quality and accessibility are essential requirements to guarantee a transparent policy making framework, thus promoting democracy, certainty of rights and participation of citizens in the decision-making process. In particular European Union policies about eGovernment call for high level Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions for promoting a more transparent, participatory and accountable decision-making process. Legal knowledge modeling can represent a pre-condition for meeting such requirements; at the same time the Semantic Web can provide the background of principles and tools allowing the implementation of advanced legislative drafting processes in mono and multilingual domains, as well as retrieval and reasoning services on legislation. This paper will investigate such issues according to semantic and logic profiles of legal texts, as well as possible technical implementations of such services.
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24 November 2005, Manchester, UK. http://www.epractice.eu/en/library/281737 (Retrieved on 7 June 2014).
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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/ministerial-declaration-on-egovernment-malmo.pdf (Retrieved on 7 June 2014).
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https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/eparticipation (Retrieved on 7 June 2014).
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The notion of conceptual meaning of a lexical unit derives from linguistic semantics and represents the specification of the meaning of a term (simple or complex because represented by one or more words, respectively) by its belonging to a synset (class of synonyms) or ontology class.
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XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a standard syntax to describe contents.
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Use of XML standard during the drafting phase.
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http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en (Retrieved on 7 June 2014).
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A textual drafting tool with which user can manage and produce documents according to a specific XML format.
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Francesconi, E. (2015). Legal Knowledge Modeling for Managing Legislation in the Semantic Web. In: Araszkiewicz, M., Płeszka, K. (eds) Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking. Legisprudence Library, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19575-9_19
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