A call for papers has been issued for a special issue on the topic of “Law, Language and Information Technology,” of the international journal, Informatica e diritto.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
- support to legislative drafting;
- quality indicators for readability, clearness and coherence in legal texts;
- construction, use and reuse of linguistic-semantic resources: taxonomies, thesauri, lexicons and ontologies;
- conceptualization of legal knowledge for cross-lingual and trans-national retrieval as well as for knowledge sharing;
- multilingualism and linguistic policies for digital legal information services;
- tools for multilingual alignment of legal terminologies;
- semantic interoperability among digital collections;
- metadata quality, standards and shared vocabularies for legal documents exchange and linked data in the legal domain;
- information extraction and automatic classification of legal corpora;
- historical archives: digitalization, preservation and usability;
- legal texts processing and quantitative analysis of legal documents;
- legal language and the communication of the law in multilingual and multicultural contexts;
- law and language in legal professions training
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2014. im