Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen; Hien Cao; Rafael Leal; Heikki Rantala; Aki Hietanen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_35

Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen^*, Hien Cao, Rafael Leal, Heikki Rantala, Aki Hietanen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates how Linked Open Data (LOD) can be used for publishing, searching, and analyzing legislative documents in an international cross-broader multilingual setting. Cross-border services are needed, e.g., when one is moving from one country to another and looking for regulations for immigration, heath care, education, etc. in one’s own language. The main novelty of the FinEstLawSampo demonstrator presented, based on legislation from Finland, Estonia, and the EU, is the provision of heterogeneous cross-country, multilingual, distributed legal data through multiple application perspectives for faceted searching, browsing, and for data analysis in legal informatics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publication	ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Proceedings
Editors	Albert Meroño Peñuela, Oscar Corcho, Paul Groth, Elena Simperl, Valentina Tamma, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Maria Poveda-Villalón, Marta Sabou, Valentina Presutti, Irene Celino, Artem Revenko, Joe Raad, Bruno Sartini, Pasquale Lisena
Publisher	Springer
Pages	244-248
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-78951-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_35
Publication status	Published - 28 Jan 2025
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Extended Semantic Web Conference - Hersonissos, Greece Duration: 26 May 2024 → 30 May 2024 Conference number: 21

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer
Volume	15344 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Extended Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated title	ESWC
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Hersonissos
Period	26/05/2024 → 30/05/2024

Keywords

Data service
Law
Linked data
Multilingual
Semantic portal

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Hyvönen, E., Cao, H., Leal, R., Rantala, H., & Hietanen, A. (2025). Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web. In A. Meroño Peñuela, O. Corcho, P. Groth, E. Simperl, V. Tamma, A. G. Nuzzolese, M. Poveda-Villalón, M. Sabou, V. Presutti, I. Celino, A. Revenko, J. Raad, B. Sartini, & P. Lisena (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Proceedings (pp. 244-248). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 15344 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_35

Hyvönen, Eero ; Cao, Hien ; Leal, Rafael et al. / Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Proceedings. editor / Albert Meroño Peñuela ; Oscar Corcho ; Paul Groth ; Elena Simperl ; Valentina Tamma ; Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese ; Maria Poveda-Villalón ; Marta Sabou ; Valentina Presutti ; Irene Celino ; Artem Revenko ; Joe Raad ; Bruno Sartini ; Pasquale Lisena. Springer, 2025. pp. 244-248 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Hyvönen, E, Cao, H, Leal, R , Rantala, H & Hietanen, A 2025, Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web. in A Meroño Peñuela, O Corcho, P Groth, E Simperl, V Tamma, AG Nuzzolese, M Poveda-Villalón, M Sabou, V Presutti, I Celino, A Revenko, J Raad, B Sartini & P Lisena (eds), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 15344 LNCS, Springer, pp. 244-248, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Hersonissos, Greece, 26/05/2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_35

Searching and Analyzing Cross-Border Multilingual Legislation on the Semantic Web. / Hyvönen, Eero; Cao, Hien; Leal, Rafael et al.
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Proceedings. ed. / Albert Meroño Peñuela; Oscar Corcho; Paul Groth; Elena Simperl; Valentina Tamma; Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese; Maria Poveda-Villalón; Marta Sabou; Valentina Presutti; Irene Celino; Artem Revenko; Joe Raad; Bruno Sartini; Pasquale Lisena. Springer, 2025. p. 244-248 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 15344 LNCS).

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