Modelling Legal Documents for Their Exploitation as Open Data

As our society becomes more and more complex, legal documents are produced at an increasingly fast pace, generating datasets that show many of the characteristics that define Big Data. On the other hand, as the trend of Open Data has spread widely in the government sector nowadays, publication of legal documents in the form of Open Data is expected to yield important benefits. In this paper, we propose the modelling of Greek legal texts based on the Akoma Ntoso document model, which is a necessary step for their representation as Open Data and we describe use cases that show how these massive legal open datasets could be further exploited.

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