NLP Challenges for Eunomos a Tool to Build and Manage Legal Knowledge

Guido Boella, Luigi di Caro, Llio Humphreys, Livio Robaldo, Leon van der Torre


Abstract
In this paper, we describe how NLP can semi-automate the construction and analysis of knowledge in Eunomos, a legal knowledge management service which enables users to view legislation from various sources and find the right definitions and explanations of legal concepts in a given context. NLP can semi-automate some routine tasks currently performed by knowledge engineers, such as classifying norm, or linking key terms within legislation to ontological concepts. This helps overcome the resource bottleneck problem of creating specialist knowledge management systems. While accuracy is of the utmost importance in the legal domain, and the information should be verified by domain experts as a matter of course, a semi-automated approach can result in considerable efficiency gains.
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L12-1617
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3672–3678
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Guido Boella, Luigi di Caro, Llio Humphreys, Livio Robaldo, and Leon van der Torre. 2012. NLP Challenges for Eunomos a Tool to Build and Manage Legal Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3672–3678, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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NLP Challenges for Eunomos a Tool to Build and Manage Legal Knowledge (Boella et al., LREC 2012)
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