Re: [legalcitem] 2 comments on FundamentalRequirements3rd

[monica.palmirani <monica.palmirani@unibo.it>]

Hi Thomas,

my comment for the point 2.

-mp
Il 02/12/2015 17:03, Thomas Francart ha scritto:

Hello

2 small remarks about https://wiki.oasis-open.org/legalcitem/FundamentalRequirements3rd :

1. "For instance, if the document was expressed in HTML and the action associated to the citation was to execute a hypertext jump to the destination, then an <a href=""> element would be added, and in the href attribute we would need to place a reference." --> if I understood the definitions correctly, wouldn't it be a _locator_ here, rather than a _reference_ ?
2. On the definition of "reference" :
1. I tend to disagree with the statement "A reference contains at least the same quantity of information as the textual citation for the purpose of identifying the relevant text, and possibly more". In the use-case of automated text-mining legal citation parsing, the machine-readable representation of the citation might contains less information that the textual citation (because not every information was catched by the parser); in that case some information is lost when going from the textual citation to its machine-readable version;
   
2. I also don't think a human action must take place to interpret the citation - here again I have a text-mining use-case in mind.
   

***the scenario is more complex.
a) the citation text includes all the information necessary for building a correct and full reference, e.g., Art. 3, Act on 20 January 2000, n. 39;
b) the citation text includes an abbreviation of the whole information necessary for building the reference and a repository is used for integrating data. Abbreviation, short titles, frequent citations need to be integrated with the correct wide information. Example: Art. 2 of the Constitution, Section 4 of the Transportation Act 2001, section 3 FOIA. In this case the information is well-known but not included in the text. The system can detect from other repository/catalogue.
c) the citation text includes information but the parser is not able to detect it and so an human person needs to integrate the reference using text or additional data (e.g., table A is a sub-annex of the Protocol document and it is not clear in the textual citation)
d) the citation text includes vague information (often it is a legislative and political decision). It is leaved by the interpret.

Cheers

Thomas

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