Intertextuality in Legislative and Private Legal Texts

On Legal Texts and Cases

The search employed by judicial professionals when seeking for past similar legal decisions is known as jurisprudence research. Humans employ analogical reasoning when comparing a given actual situation with past decisions, noting the affinities between them. In the process of being reminded of a similar situation when faced to a new one, Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems simulate analogical r...

Legal Personality—Legislative or Judicial Prerogative

Legal/legislative issues in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Constructing and exploiting an automatically annotated resource of legislative texts

In this paper, we report on the construction of a resource of Swiss legislative texts that is automatically annotated with structural, morphosyntactic and content-related information, and we discuss the exploitation of this resource for the purposes of legislative drafting, legal linguistics and translation and for the evaluation of legislation. Our resource is based on the classified compilati...

Verb Valency Frames in Czech Legal Texts

This paper deals with valency frames for selected group of Czech verbs belonging to the domain of law. Starting with the lexical database VerbaLex we propose semantic roles for these verbs and formulate their Complex Valency Frames. The lexical database VerbaLex has been developed recently at the NLP Centre FI MU and contains approximately 10 500 Czech verbs. We integrate the proposed ’law’ val...