Paper Info
Title
Semantic Finlex: Transforming, Publishing, And Using Finnish Legislation And Case Law As Linked Open Data On The Web
Abstract
Governments publish legislation and case law widely in print and on the Web. Such legal information is provided for human consumption, but the information is usually not available as data for algorithmic analysis and applications to use. However, this would be beneficial in many use cases, such as building more intelligent juridical online services and conducting research into legislation and legal practice. To address these needs, this Chapter presents Semantic Finlex, a national in-use data resource and service for publishing Finnish legislation and related case law as Linked Open Data for legal applications to use. The system transforms and interlinks on a regular basis data from the legacy legal database Finlex of the Ministry of Justice into Linked Open Data, based on the European standards ECLI and ELI. The published data is hosted on the '7-star' Linked Data Finland service and SPARQL endpoint with a variety of related services available that ease data re-use. Rich Internet Applications using SPARQL for data access are presented as application demonstrators of the data service. In addition, this Chapter presents methods and tools under development to automatically annotate legal texts and to anonymize case law documents prior to their publication on the Web. Anonymization is necessary due to issues of data protection and privacy, and annotation is needed for semantic search and interlinking the documents. The automated approaches could significantly speed up the process and minimize costs of publishing legal documents as Linked Open Data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3233/FAIA190023
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW IN THE BIG DATA AGE
Keywords
Field
DocType
legislation, case law, linked data publishing, automatic anonymization, automatic annotation
World Wide Web,Political science,Linked data,Legislation,Common law,Publishing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
317
0922-6389
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arttu Oksanen100.34
Minna Tamper203.38
Jouni Tuominen317827.45
Eetu Mäkelä418823.10
Aki Hietanen500.34
Eero Hyvönen6843103.43