@inproceedings{d20afffb8ed74735ba718a1013fd6a5f,
title = "Multilingual Legal Information Retrieval System for Mapping Recitals and Normative Provisions",
abstract = "This paper presents a multilingual legal information retrieval system for mapping recitals to articles in European Union (EU) directives and normative provisions in national legislation. Such a system could be useful for purposive interpretation of norms. A previous work on mapping recitals and normative provisions was limited to EU legislation in English and only one lexical text similarity technique. In this paper, we develop state-of-the-art text similarity models to investigate the interplay between directive recitals, directive (sub-)articles and provisions of national implementing measures (NIMs) on a multilingual corpus (from Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg). Our results indicate that directive recitals do not have a direct influence on NIM provisions, but they sometimes contain additional information that is not present in the transposed directive sub-article, and can therefore facilitate purposive interpretation.",
keywords = "European legislation, interpretation, legal information retrieval, recitals",
author = "Rohan Nanda and Llio Humphreys and Lorenzo Grossio and {Kolawole John}, Adebayo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University and IOS Press.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3233/FAIA200856",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-16-4368-150-4",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "123--132",
editor = "S. Villata and J. Hara{\v s}ta and P. K{\v r}emen",
booktitle = "Legal Knowledge and Information Systems",
address = "Netherlands",
}