Retrieval of Italian legal literature: a case of semantic search using legal vocabulary. (7th February 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Francesconi, E.; Peruginelli, G.
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 1:Number 3(2006)
• Page Start: 207
• Page End: 215
• Publication Date: 2007-02-07
• Subjects: legal literature -- precision -- recall -- information retrieval -- controlled vocabularies -- metadata vocabularies -- Dublin Core -- semantic searches; 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

Retrieval of legal information, in particular legal literature, is examined in conjunction with the creation of a Portal to Italian legal doctrine. Subject searching is a major requirement for Italian legal literature users and a solution is described for the retrieval of legal literature's resources. Such solution is based on the exploitation of Dublin Core (DC) metadata for both data coming from structured repositories and for web documents, as well as the use of a controlled vocabulary list prepared for accessing indexed papers of the DoGi database. Technical specifications are illustrated, as well as benefits and limitations of such solution.