Call for papers: Special issue on Law, Language and Information Technology, of Informatica e diritto

A call for papers has been issued for a special issue on the topic of ” Law, Language and Information Technology,” of the international journal, Informatica e diritto .

Click here for the call in English.

Click here for the call in Italian.

The submission deadline for title and abstract is 15 January 2014.

Here is a non-exclusive list of topics for the special issue:

• Linguistic quality in legal texts: assessing formal, technical and terminological quality;


• support to legislative drafting;


• quality indicators for readability, clearness and coherence in legal texts;


• construction, use and reuse of linguistic-semantic resources: taxonomies, thesauri, lexicons and ontologies;


• conceptualization of legal knowledge for cross-lingual and trans-national retrieval as well as for knowledge sharing;


• multilingualism and linguistic policies for digital legal information services;


• tools for multilingual alignment of legal terminologies;


• semantic interoperability among digital collections;


• metadata quality, standards and shared vocabularies for legal documents exchange and linked data in the legal domain;


• information extraction and automatic classification of legal corpora;


• historical archives: digitalization, preservation and usability;


• legal texts processing and quantitative analysis of legal documents;


• legal language and the communication of the law in multilingual and multicultural contexts;


• law and language in legal professions training

For more details, please see the complete call.

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