visualising legal meaning in legal informatics. workshop datamss 2014 presentation
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Visualising Legal Meaning in
Legal Informatics
DatAMSS 2014, Druskininkai, Lithuania, 4-6.12.2014
6th International Workshop Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems
Friedrich LACHMAYER Vienna and University of Innsbruck
www.legalvisualization.com
Vytautas ČYRAS Vilnius University
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Vytautas.Cyras@mif.vu.lt
Kristina LAPIN Vilnius University
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Kristina.Lapin@mif.vu.lt
Communicating legal contents
from the human to the machine
• Transition from text culture to machine culture in law
• Semantic modeling [Paradauskas, Nemuraitė 2008 “Semantic models of databases”, in Lithuanian]
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“Multiphase transformation”
1. Gap “law computer” is too wide.
2. Therefore several stages.
3. “Multiarch bridge”
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Legal visualization
• Not data visualization
• Not information visualization [Card 2008]
• A kind of knowledge visualization
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“Symbolization” as visualization
1. The language of law = metaphors
2. Logical diagrams
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Privalomybė
Esamybė
Law
Is Ought
part-of part-of
Is does not imply Ought
• Fact A does not imply Norm(A)
• Neither is implied: Obligatory A, Permitted A, Forbidden A
• Causation does not imply imputation
– Causation: if A then B
– Imputation: if A then Ought B
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B cause A
B Ought A
Visualizing the meaning (semantics)
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Guarino, Oberle, Staab 2009
“What is an Ontology?”
To what extent does UML
visualize meaning?
Tertium comparationis
• Latin – the third part of the comparison
• Quality that two things that are being
compared have in common
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A B
tertium comparationis
4 apples 4 pears
Number 4
Tertium communicationis
• Intermediate formats, e.g. XML Schema
• Aim: document type definition for
communication humans/machines
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Thank you
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