Call for Papers: Journal 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.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

  • 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

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2014. im