The LME project: legislative metadata based on semantic formal models. (11th August 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bartalesi Lenzi, Valentina; Biagioli, Carlo; Cappelli, Amedeo; Sprugnoli, Rachele; , Fabrizio Turchi
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 4:Number 3(2009)
• Page Start: 154
• Page End: 164
• Publication Date: 2009-08-11
• Subjects: 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; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

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.