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The structuring of legal knowledge in LOIS

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Legal information retrieval is in need of the provision of legal knowledge for the improvement of search strategies. For this purpose, the LOIS project is concerned with the construction of a multilingual WordNet for cross-lingual information retrieval in the legal domain. In this article, we set out how a hybrid approach, featuring lexically and legally grounded conceptual representations, can fit the cross-lingual information retrieval needs of both legal professionals and laymen

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  1. NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Wim Peters

  2. Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche per l’Informazione Giuridica del Consiglio, Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, 00185, Italy

    Maria-Teresa Sagri & Daniela Tiscornia

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Peters, W., Sagri, MT. & Tiscornia, D. The structuring of legal knowledge in LOIS. Artif Intell Law 15, 117–135 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9034-4

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