Automatic Taxonomy Generation: A Use-Case in the Legal Domain

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    Abstract

    A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners and researchers to access this information more easily and faster to help with compliance related issues. One way to approach this goal is in the form of a taxonomy of legal concepts. While this task usually requires a manual construction of terms and their relations by domain experts, this paper describes a methodology to automatically generate a taxonomy of legal noun concepts. We apply and compare two approaches on a corpus consisting of statutory instruments for UK, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland laws.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHuman Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics - 8th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2017, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsZygmunt Vetulani, Patrick Paroubek, Marek Kubis
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages318-328
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Print)9783030665265
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020
    Event8th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2017 - Poznań, Poland
    Duration: 17 Nov 201719 Nov 2017

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume12598 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference8th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2017
    Country/TerritoryPoland
    CityPoznań
    Period17/11/1719/11/17

    Keywords

    • Hierarchical embedding clustering
    • Legal domain
    • Taxonomy generation
    • Topic hierarchy

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