Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Language and Law – new applications of formal linguistics 1
6. Part 1. Understanding the law: The contribution of semantics and psycholinguistics
7. Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters 25
8. Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions 55
9. Understanding a Riester-pension: A reply to Becker and Klein (2008) 81
10. Part 2. Identifying the criminal: The contribution of phonetics and text/corpus linguistics
11. Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency 115
12. Phonetic cues to speaker age: A longitudinal study 141
13. Does speech reveal one’s age? On the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis 163
14. Part 3. Organizing legal systems: The contribution of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence
15. Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology 183
16. Making sense of legal texts 225
17. Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex 257
18. The LOIS project and beyond 293
19. Part 4. Multilingualism and the law: The contribution of translation studies
20. Multilingualism in the European Union Status quo and perspectives: The reference language model 315
21. Drafting and interpretation of EU law – paradoxes of legal multilingualism 339
22. Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland 371
23. A modular approach to legal drafting and translation 401
24. Backmatter 427