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Semantic Lexicons for Accessing Legal Information

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Electronic Government (EGOV 2004)

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In many countries public institutions, as the main producers and distributors of legal source information, have promoted projects aimed at improving the availability and the free access to information via the web as a significant component of the process of transparency in citizen/institution interaction. This paper describes the state of the art in terms of European projects created by public institutions for facilitating access to regulatory information and it focuses on the necessity of integrating structural documentary standards with semantic ones for the description of content. The Italian JurWordNet project is a source of semantic metadata aimed at supporting the semantic interoperability between sectors of Public Administration; the creation of a multilingual lexicon that extends the Italian model to five European languages (the aim of the Lois Project that has recently been approved by the EU) is also described.

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  1. ITTIG (Institute for Theory and Techniques for Legal Information) Of the Italian Research Council, Florence, Italy

    Maria-Teresa Sagri & Daniela Tiscornia

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  1. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Sagri, MT., Tiscornia, D. (2004). Semantic Lexicons for Accessing Legal Information. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_12

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