Legal Modificatory Provisions and Thematic Relations
Leonardo Lesmo, Alessandro Mazzei, Daniele Paolo Radicioni · International conference natural language processing · 2009
This paper describes a system for the semantic annotation of legal texts. In particular, it deals with “modificatory provisions”, i.e. instructions, present in a legal text, to modify previous laws, by inserting, deleting or replacing parts of the older text. The paper also reports the results on a preliminary study about the use of thematic relations in marking the role of the relevant components of the modificatory provision under analysis.