Description
The ManyLaws Project (EU-wide Legal Text Mining using Big Data Processing Infrastructures) is a platform set up to deliver a set of services for citizens, businesses and administrations in the European Union, Austria and Greece. The Action's overall objective is to enable access to legal information across the European Union and improve the efficacy of decision making in legislative procedures operated by public bodies. Specifically, the Action will set-up a platform (ManyLaws) which will deliver a set of services for citizens, businesses and administrations built upon text mining, advanced processing and semantic analysis of laws of the European Union, Austria, and Greece. The addition of laws from other Member States will be explored and, if possible, implemented. Moreover, these services will be tested within at least two law making procedures of the Greek and Austrian Parliament.
Details
| Duration | 01/10/2018 - 31/03/2021 |
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| Funding | EU |
| Program |
CEF Programme
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| Departments | |
| Principle investigator for the project (Danube University Krems) | Shefali Virkar, Ph.D. |
| Project members | Ass. Prof. Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Dr. Thomas Lampoltshammer, M.A. MSc MBA Mag. Anna-Sophie Novak Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Riedl, Bakk. Lörinc Thurnay, MSc |
Publications
Alexopoulos, C.; Virkar, S.; Loutsaris, M.A.; Novak, A.-S.; Loukis, E. (2020). Analysing Legal Information Requirements for Public Policy Making. In: Hofmann, S.: Csáki, C.; Edelmann, N.; Lampoltshammer, T.J.; Melin, U.; Parycek, P.; Schwabe, G.; Tambouris, E., Electronic Participation 12th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2020 Linköping, Sweden (online), August 31 - September 2, 2020 Proceedings: 95-108, LNCS Springer, Cham., Switzerland
Stavropoulou, S.; Romas, I.; Tsekeridou, S.; Loutsaris, M.A.; Lampoltshammer, T.J.; Thurnay, L.; Virkar, S.; Schefbeck, G.; Kyriakou, N.; Lachana, Z.; Alexopoulos, C.; Charalambidis, Y. (2020). Architecting an innovative big open legal data analytics, search and retrieval platform. In: Charalabidis, Y.; Cunha, M.A.; Sarantis, D., ICEGOV 2020: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: 723–730, Association for Computing Machinery, New York; United States
Virkar, S.; Alexopoulos, C.; Stavropoulou, S.; Tsekeridou, S.; Novak, A.-S. (2020). User-Centric Decision Support System Design in Legal Informatics: A Typology of Users. In: Charalabidis, Y.; Cunha, M.A.; Sarantis,D., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020), 23-25 September 2020, Athens, Greece. 711-722, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, New York, United States of America
Virkar, S.; Novak, A.-S. (2019). Investigating Patterns of Legal Information Access and Use in Greece and Austria: Towards Defining a Legal Information Environment for eGovernment. In: EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 - Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019, 2019: 32-40, Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0, International
Virkar, S.; Novak, A.-S.; Charalabidis, Y.; Tsekeridou, S.; Stavropoulou, S.; Romas, I.; Schefbeck, G. (2019). Decision Support by Design: Exploring UserCentred Design of Legal Information Retrieval Systems in the Context of E-Government Research. In: EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 - Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019, 2019: 223-226, Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0, International
Virkar, S.; Udokwu, C.; Novak, A.-S.; Tsekeridou, S. (2019). Facilitating Public Access to Legal Information: A Conceptual Model for Designing an Agile Data-driven Decision Support System. In: 2nd International Data Science Conference 2019 Proceedings, Springer, Cham: 77-82, Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden
Charalabidis, Y.; Loutsaris, M.A.; Virkar, S.; Alexopoulos, C.; Novak, A.-S.; Lachana, Z. (2019). Use Case Scenarios on Legal Text Mining. ICEGOV 2019, 12th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 3-5 April 2019- Proceedings, 3-5 April 2019: 364
Novak, A.; Udokwu C.; Alexopoulos C.; Loutsaris M.; Virkar S. (2019). Mining Legislation: An Analysis of Legal and Technical Implications. Jusletter IT, 21. Februar 2019: 136
Virkar, S.; Novak, A.S., Alexopoulos, C.; Charalabidis, Y.; Loutsaris, M. (2018). Examining the Technical, Legal and Ethical Implications of Improved Access to Legal Information Using Supercomputing Technology: The ManyLaws Project. The University of Groningen, Online
Lectures
Embracing Disruption: Enhancing the Delivery of User-Centric Legal Informatics Services
13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV 2020, 22/09/2020
The Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Law-making: Emerging Issues and Perspectives
Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion - IRIS 2020, 29/02/2020
Towards Comprehensive Legal Information Search and Retrieval: Learning and Building from Evaluated Projects
Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion - IRIS 2020, 29/02/2020
Legal Analytics in the Service of Law-Making: The ManyLaws Project
LEX Summer School, Ravenna, Italy, 14/09/2019
Legal Analytics in the Service of Law-Making: The ManyLaws Project
Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 2019, 23/02/2019
Mining Legislation: An Analysis of Legal and Technical Implications
Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 2019, 23/02/2019