ICT Tools for the Discovery of Semantic Relations in Legal Documents
Marco Bianchi, Mauro Draoli, Giorgio Gambosi, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Noemi Scarpato, Armando Stellato · 2009
Abstract. This paper reports the experience of the development and the evaluation of a set of pre-competitive tools to support legal profes-sionals in exploring a complex corpus of norms and documents in the legal domain. The research addresses two complementary goals: using ICT to support the simplification of the corpus of norms and using ICT to facilitate search and retrieval of information in large archives in the legal domain. The contribution of this work is in the development of tools beyond state of the art for the e-discovery of relationships between sections of norms or other legal documents. To reach the best results in terms of effectiveness, the tools combine statistical and the semantic approaches. The effectiveness of the statistical tool has been measured in terms of precision, through an assessment procedure that involved some experts of the legal domain.