Legivoc – connecting laws in a changing world
Keywords:
law, language, legal internet, legal informatics, thesauri, vocabularies, alignment, member states of the European UnionAbstract
On the Internet, legal information is a sum of national laws. Even in a changing world, law is culturally specific (nation-specific most of the time) and legal concepts only become meaningful when put in the context of a particular legal system. Legivoc aims to be a semantic interface between the subject of law of a State and the other spaces of legal information that it will be led to use. This project will consist of setting up a server of multilingual legal vocabularies from the European Union Member States legal systems, which will be freely available, for other uses via an application programming interface (API).
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Fazy, James, De l'intelligence collective des sociétés, cours de législation constitutionnelle, donné par M. James Fazy, Genève : 1873, Impr. de Vve Blanchard, 450p
Court of Justice of the European Union - Directorate General for Translation, Vocabulaire juridique multilingue comparé: Bilan sur l'étude de faisabilité (Caroline Reichling), 30 juin 2010, online http://curia.europa.eu/trad/bilan_vocabulaire_juridique_mutlilingue_compare.pdf (only in French)
Mazet, Guy, Jurilinguistique et informatique juridique, 2001, IRETIJ, Montpellier I University
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