Morphosyntactic disambiguation is a crucial pre-processing step for the recognition of grammatical functions in morphologically rich languages like German and heavily nominalized domains like law texts. This paper explores how far linguistically motivated hard rules can contribute to morphosyntactic disambiguation. It introduces an incremental system that is capable of reducing the rate of morp...

[Context and motivation] To elaborate legal compliance requirements, analysts need to read and interpret the relevant legal provisions. An important complexity while performing this task is that the information pertaining to a compliance requirement may be scattered across several provisions that are related via cross references. [Question/Problem] Prior research highlights the importance of de...

ambiguity is one of very important techniques in persian rhetoric, but in spite of its importance, it seems there is not enough accuracy in its definition and types.  the present essay tries to redefine the concept of ambiguity. we will begin by analyzing the definitions of ambiguity and amphiboly according to the old and new persian sources; then we presents a new definition and review and ana...

In this work we consider the task of the automatic semantic annotation of the normative modifications enclosed in Italian legal texts. The system is based on a deep syntactic parsing coupled with a semantic analysis based on frames.

We describe how the ambiguity of Latin words renders the machine translation of Latin texts into English much harder than that of the derived west-European languages. Some possible solutions are outlined, and have been tested on the commercial translator ‘Blitz Latin’.

Most legal tasks involve document preparation. Drafting effective texts is central to lawyering, judging, legislating, and regulating. How best to support that work with intelligent tools is an ancient topic in AI-and-Law circles. This article surveys the history and current state of document drafting software and associated theory. Present frontiers in both of those fields are identified, and ...

Prepositional phrase attachment (PP attachment) is a major source of ambiguity in English. It poses a substantial challenge to Machine Translation (MT) between English and languages that are not characterized by PP attachment ambiguity. In this paper we present an unsupervised, bilingual, corpus-based approach to the resolution of English PP attachment ambiguity. As data we use aligned linguist...

protect the rights of creditor financial and deny the debt and concern the law of debtor, is important to the tradition and the attention of lawgiver and this issue well used from the quran and habit and scholars fatwas. in the trades in which for escape from the debtor's debt, specially concerning to change of alter the 218 clause of the civil codes, expressing the opinion and a few of people ...

The consensual contract to transfer vehicle ownership is a widespread subject in Iraq and the Kurdistan region, creates many legal problems its adaptation effects that depend on this adaptation. These are apparent jurisprudence’s handling of subject, these also reflected decisions judiciary which includes more than one trend regard. This study an attempt explore Iraqi law both jurisprudence ord...