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Semantic Interoperability among Thesauri: A Challenge in the Multicultural Legal Domain

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In the last few years crucial issues like cross-language legal information retrieval, document classification, legal knowledge discovery and extraction have been considered in theory and in practice. The availability of services allowing cross-language and cross-collection retrieval is a growing necessity. This paper focuses on the need to develop solutions for automatic, language-independent procedures to provide interoperability between mono/poly-lingual thesauri at national and European levels. This will guarantee sustainable and scalable services enabling to manage the multilingual complexity of the European Union legal context to be used for cross-language and cross-collection legal information retrieval. Wider use of the service can also be envisaged as support to legal translation services, as well as in general to promote integration and sharing of widespread and heterogeneous legal resources, providing new market opportunities for stakeholders to exploit the economic potential of public sector information in a multilanguage environment.

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  1. Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National Research Council,  

    Enrico Francesconi & Ginevra Peruginelli

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 60-967, Poznań, Poland

    Krzysztof Węcel

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Francesconi, E., Peruginelli, G. (2010). Semantic Interoperability among Thesauri: A Challenge in the Multicultural Legal Domain. In: Abramowicz, W., Tolksdorf, R., Węcel, K. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15402-7_34

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