On the Semantic Difference of Judicial and Standard Language
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| Publication date | 2023 |
| Book title | Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law |
| Book subtitle | Proceedings of the Conference : Braga, Portugal, June 19-23, 2023, Universidade do Minho Law School |
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| Event | 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL 2023 |
| Pages (from-to) | 382-386 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publisher | New York, New York: The Association for Computing Machinery |
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| Abstract |
Legal language is considered to be a key obstacle to the comprehensibility of court decisions for laypeople. While differences between written’standard’ and legal language have already been analysed with regard to syntactic peculiarities, there is still a lack of findings on the influence of divergent word meanings on comprehensibility. We present the course and the preliminary results of a study elaborating such ambiguities on the basis of over half a million German court decisions. As these differences are highly language-dependent, our study consequentially relates (only) to German. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1145/3594536.3595123 |
| Other links | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85177880975 |
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