In this paper we present a question-answering system for Portuguese juridical documents. The system has two modules: preliminary analysis of documents (information extraction) and query processing (information retrieval). The proposed approach is based on computational linguistic theories: syntactical analysis (constraint grammars); followed by semantic analysis using the discourse representati...

In December 1982, the Peruvian government declared emergency zones in the country, giving control to the armed forces who applied operational plans aimed at eliminating guerrilla violence. The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission conlcudes there is evidence that sexual violence was a generalized practice quietly tolerated by the security forces, and in some cases, openly permitted ...

Juridical information is important to organizations and individuals alike and is needed in all walks of life. The Finnish government has therefore published Finnish law and related juridical documents on the Web as a service called Finlex. However, even if the documents there are openly available for humans to read, the underlying data has not been open, is based on a traditional XML schema, an...