2016
Garofalakis, John; Plessas, Konstantinos; Plessas, Athanasios
A semi-automatic system for the consolidation of Greek legislative texts Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, pp. 1:1–1:6, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4789-1.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Ετικέτες: Greek legislation, law revisions, law text analysis, natural language processing, regular expressions
@inproceedings{Garofalakis2016,
title = {A semi-automatic system for the consolidation of Greek legislative texts},
author = {John Garofalakis and Konstantinos Plessas and Athanasios Plessas},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3003733.3003735
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doi = {10.1145/3003733.3003735},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4789-1},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-11-12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics},
pages = {1:1--1:6},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {PCI '16},
abstract = {The process of manually consolidating the historical revisions of law documents, by finding and applying in the appropriate chronological order all existing modifications to the original text, is usually tedious and mentally demanding. However, since legal language is highly structured, natural language processing techniques can be adopted to automate this process. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic system for the consolidation of Greek legislative texts, following an approach based on regular expressions. Consolidated versions of laws are pushed in a revision control system, enhancing open access to legislation. A manual step is necessary in order to fix system failures caused by syntax errors or related to wrong application of the legal rules by law makers.},
keywords = {Greek legislation, law revisions, law text analysis, natural language processing, regular expressions},
pubstate = {published},
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}
The process of manually consolidating the historical revisions of law documents, by finding and applying in the appropriate chronological order all existing modifications to the original text, is usually tedious and mentally demanding. However, since legal language is highly structured, natural language processing techniques can be adopted to automate this process. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic system for the consolidation of Greek legislative texts, following an approach based on regular expressions. Consolidated versions of laws are pushed in a revision control system, enhancing open access to legislation. A manual step is necessary in order to fix system failures caused by syntax errors or related to wrong application of the legal rules by law makers.
2015
Garofalakis, John; Plessas, Konstantinos; Plessas, Athanasios
Automated Analysis of Greek Legislative Texts for Version Control: Limitations, Caveats and Challenges Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, pp. 115–116, ACM, Athens, Greece, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3551-5.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Ετικέτες: law text analysis, legislation, natural language processing, version control
@inproceedings{Garofalakis:2015:AAG:2801948.2802037,
title = {Automated Analysis of Greek Legislative Texts for Version Control: Limitations, Caveats and Challenges},
author = { John Garofalakis and Konstantinos Plessas and Athanasios Plessas},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2801948.2802037},
doi = {10.1145/2801948.2802037},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3551-5},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-10-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics},
pages = {115--116},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {Athens, Greece},
series = {PCI '15},
abstract = {Greek legislation is produced in the form of texts often containing amendments and references to precedent laws. This structure imposes an increased cognitive complexity and makes it very difficult for citizens to reconstruct the current version of a law. In this paper we present our ongoing work on the automated analysis of Greek legislative texts, aiming to track the evolution of laws through version control systems. We put emphasis on the challenges, the limitations and the encountered problems of our attempt so far, which are due to the unfriendly - from a technological perspective - legislative procedures that are followed.},
keywords = {law text analysis, legislation, natural language processing, version control},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Greek legislation is produced in the form of texts often containing amendments and references to precedent laws. This structure imposes an increased cognitive complexity and makes it very difficult for citizens to reconstruct the current version of a law. In this paper we present our ongoing work on the automated analysis of Greek legislative texts, aiming to track the evolution of laws through version control systems. We put emphasis on the challenges, the limitations and the encountered problems of our attempt so far, which are due to the unfriendly - from a technological perspective - legislative procedures that are followed.