ABSTRACT
One of the main objectives of the paper is to present a big open legal data (BOLD) platform that will enable easy and advanced access to open legal information across the European Union. We envision facilitating public access for all types of users to open legal data accessed and served via a Legal Web platform in a customizable, structured, intuitive and easy-to-handle way. The user-centric suite of services to be offered include: i) research through legal corpora, analyzing the alignment of national legislation with EU legislation, ii) comparing national laws which target the same life events, iii) analyzing the references to European legislation by national laws, iv) analyzing related laws within the same Member State, v) timeline analysis for all legal acts, vi) visualization of the progress and current status of a specific national or European piece of legislation and vii) sentiment analysis towards new legislation. To implement these, the Manylaws platform builds upon data analytics, text mining, semantic analysis and interactive visualization approaches, for multilingual resources, that will allow users to pose advanced queries, upon which the system will semantically correlate them with annotated resources, to allow the user to retrieve relevant and detailed results, visualized in intuitive ways, and thus allowing better understanding of legal information or building innovative data-centric services. The paper thus describes the novel ManyLaws platform architecture and design specification that will drive the implementation and operation of the ManyLaws portal service infrastructure. The ManyLaws architecture and design specification have been devised following co-design paradigms with legal and parliamentary stakeholders, and software engineering practices for elaboration of its components and their connectors.
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Architecting an innovative big open legal data analytics, search and retrieval platform
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