Differentiation and Empirical Analysis of Reference Types in Legal Documents
Abstract
This paper proposes an extensible model distinguishing between reference types within legal documents. It differentiates between four types of references, namely fully-explicit, semi-explicit, implicit, and tacit references.
We conducted a case study on German laws to evaluate both: the model and the proposed differentiation of reference types. We adapted text mining algorithms to determine and classify the different references according to their type. The evaluation shows that the consideration of additional reference types heavily impacts the resulting network structure by inducing a plethora of new edges and relationships. This work extends the approaches made in network analysis and argues for the necessity of detailed differentiation between references throughout legal documents.
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| Address | Sofia Antopolis, France |
| Authors | Dr. Bernhard Waltl , Dr. Jörg Landthaler , Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes |
| Citation | Waltl, B.; Landthaler, J.; Matthes, F.: Differentiation and Empirical Analysis of Reference Types in Legal Documents, Jurix: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Sofia Antipolis, France, 2016 |
| Key | Wa16c |
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| Title | Differentiation and Empirical Analysis of Reference Types in Legal Documents |
| Type of publication | Conference |
| Year | 2016 |
| Acronym | Jurix 2016 |
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