Heikki E. S. Mattila 2006. Comparative Legal Linguistics. Hampshire: Ashgate, 347 pages

Patenting Lives. Life Patents, Culture and Development Gibson, J. (ed.) Hampshire: Ashgate

Intellectual property (IP) is a hot issue now, just as land as property was 400 years ago with the beginning of capitalism. Does this mean that we are indeed in a new phase of modernity, in which knowledge is becoming a commodity? The international struggles over IP started, however, with very different stakeholders, like worlddominating governments and huge (mostly pharmaceutical) companies. W...

Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2)

We introduce Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2) as a semiautomated method to “make sense” of legal discourse by systematically analyzing large collections of legal texts. Such digital corpora have been increasingly used in computational linguistics in recent years, as part of a quantitative research strategy designed to complement (rather than supplant) the more qualitative methods used...

Current Legal Problems 2006

Athens 2006 ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics

This paper refers to the forthcoming ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop “Experimental Linguistics” in Athens, Greece, in 2006. The major objectives of the Workshop are (1) the development of experimental methodologies in linguistic research with new perspectives for the study of language, (2) the unification of linguistic knowledge in relation to linguistic theory ba...

TREC 2006 Legal Track Overview

This paper describes the first year of a new TREC track focused on “e-discovery” of business records and other materials. A large collection of scanned documents produced by multiple real world discovery requests was adopted as the basis for the test collection. Topic statements were developed using a process representative of current practice in e-discovery applications, with both Boolean and ...