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Towards an Executable Methodology for the Formalization of Legal Texts

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Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2020)

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A methodology for the formalization of legal texts is presented. This methodology is based on features of the NAI Suite, a recently developed formalization environment for legal texts. The ability of the tool to execute queries is used in order to drive a correct formalization until all queries are validated. The approach is studied on a fragment of the Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Act 2016 of the Scottish Parliament.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://oracle.com/technetwork/apps-tech/policy-automation for further information.

  2. 2.

    See https://github.com/normativeai.

  3. 3.

    https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/bdd/.

  4. 4.

    The description is based on the definition in http://behaviour-driven.org/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/3/contents.

  6. 6.

    Please visit https://nai.uni.lu and log in with the credentials: smoking@nai.lu / nai.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/normativeai/frontend/issues.

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  1. American University of Paris, Paris, France

    Tomer Libal

  2. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

    Alexander Steen

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    Mehdi Dastani

  2. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Huimin Dong

  3. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Leon van der Torre

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Libal, T., Steen, A. (2020). Towards an Executable Methodology for the Formalization of Legal Texts. In: Dastani, M., Dong, H., van der Torre, L. (eds) Logic and Argumentation. CLAR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12061. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44638-3_10

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