Title: The LME project: legislative metadata based on semantic formal models

Authors: Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi, Carlo Biagioli, Amedeo Cappelli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Fabrizio Turchi

Addresses: CELCT, Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies, Via Sommarive 18, 38100 Povo, Italy. ' ITTIG, Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National Research Council, Via dei Barucci 20, 50127 Firenze, Italy. ' ISTI, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100 Pisa, Italy. ' CELCT, Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies, Via Sommarive 18, 38100 Povo, Italy. ' ITTIG, Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National Research Council, Via dei Barucci 20, 50127 Firenze, Italy

Abstract: The Law Making Environment (LME) system for planning, drafting and managing legislative sources is made up of editing and search support tools. To handle the semantics of legislative sources, two interacting models have been created: a rule model, which can describe the illocutionary profile of legislative texts through metadata, and a lightweight ontology. The search support tool, LMEmetaSearch, based on both models, is able to search for rules in legislative sources, and additionally to find implicit or complementary rules providing the user with a wide account on the subject.

Keywords: legal models; legal ontologies; legal information; legislative meta searching; legislative meta drafting; Law Making Environment project; LME project; legislative sources semantics; legislative texts; metadata; lightweight ontology; rule search.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.027751

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2009 Vol.4 No.3, pp.154 - 164

Published online: 10 Aug 2009 *

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