Automatic Extraction of Legal Norms: Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Tools

Gabriela Ferraro*, Ho Pun Lam, Silvano Colombo Tosatto, Francesco Olivieri, Mohammad Badiul Islam, Nick van Beest, Guido Governatori

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceedingConference Proceedingpeer-review

13 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Extracting and formalising legal norms from legal documents is a time-consuming and complex procedure. Therefore, the automatic methods that can accelerate this process are in high demand. In this paper, we address two major questions related to this problem: (i) what are the challenges in formalising legal documents into a machine understandable formalism? (ii) to what extent can the data-driven state-of-the-art approaches developed in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community be used to automate the normative mining process. The results of our experiments indicate that NLP technologies such as relation extraction and semantic parsing are promising research avenues to advance research in this area.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI International Workshops, JURISIN, AI-Biz, LENLS, Kansei-AI, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMaki Sakamoto, Naoaki Okazaki, Koji Mineshima, Ken Satoh
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages64-81
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783030587895
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event11th JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2019 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 10 Nov 201912 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12331 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period10/11/1912/11/19

Keywords

  • Automatic rule extraction
  • Evaluation
  • Legal norms
  • Natural Language Processing

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Automatic Extraction of Legal Norms: Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Tools'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this