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...

Innovating the Public Administration is not just the union of various tasks (innovating institutions, reengineering administrative processes and using innovative technologies) performed in isolation, because of the additional complexity coming from their coupling. Conceptual modelling techniques and rapid prototyping tools can help public managers and administrators to better understand the rec...

The land is a natural resource that has very important role because the needed by humans for various kinds of life interests such as living, farming, trying, and so on. policy development sector in Indonesia essentially rooted provisions 1945 Constitution Article 33 paragraph (3) which reads "Earth, water resources contained therein are controlled state used greatest prosperity people". To guar...

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers represent both a primary policy device of international development institutions, and an instance of a wider international convergence of public policy around global integration and social inclusion. Charting the emergence of these approaches, this paper argues that this convergence has a number of structural predilections which favour the technical and juridic...

BACKGROUND Cesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) could represent an avoidable quota of cesareans. In Italy, this is a topical problem of health-policy, involving ethical, juridical and medical issues. AIM AND METHODS A 5-questions questionnaire to quantitatively assess the perspectives of medical, juridical and ethical issues of planned CSMR was administered to obstetricians and gynecol...

muslim scholars and islamic official institutions consider human cloning as opposing religious doctrine, and forbidden. their ideas are based upon some theological and juridical arguments, including: posing a challenge to the creative power of god, breaking the tradition of marriage, breaking the tradition of diversity in creatures or species, making changes in divine creatures, game with creat...

so far, in the regulations for establishment of Fire Department institutions contained Jakarta City governor regulation number 264 2016 concerning organization and work procedures Jakarta, it is stated that one tasks Department, especially ranks city/regency sub-dept, mandates fire investigations. or can be interpreted as a investigation, but after authors have reviewed far from various sources...

In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in order to supply suggestions for further refinement of the user queries. The set of documents obtained from the user queries is dynamically organised in clusters labeled with keywords from a juridical thesaurus. Since,...

Portuguese juridical documents from Supreme Courts and the Attorney General’s Office are manually classified by juridical experts into a set of classes belonging to a taxonomy of concepts. In this paper, a preliminary approach to develop techniques to automatically classify these juridical documents is proposed. As basic strategy, the integration of natural language processing techniques with m...

developmental crime prevention: legal and juridical analyses of iran and england niyoosha ghahramani afshar [1] ghodrat-allah khosroshahi [2] mohammad reza shadmanfar [3]   abstract in a crime policy based on scientific doctrines, how to deal with children and adolescents’ conflicts is different from the delinquencies committed by adults. detection of crime and deviance, and the attempts to red...