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so ladies and gentlemen we're now going to continue exploring the legal context with our next speaker and we're going to look at how we can understand the better understand the your legs legal analysis methodology to do so we welcome yuraj Kuba whose Legal Assistant at the Publications Office of the European Union good afternoon good afternoon can you hear me I hope yes we can not very loud but we can okay oh now that's better thank you okay so it's about my voice good afternoon my name is from the Publications Office of the European Union and in my presentation I would like to inform you about the project which we started some time ago and which was aiming to transport zerolex legal analyze methodology or just shortly lamb from a plain text into a structured data this should help us to manage update and work with alarm in more effective way and it should also provide the basis for further movement from a human intervention to the automation of the legal analysis process and I will answer the question whether and how is this possible at the end of my presentation illegal analysis methodology describes the use of the metadata elements that are attributed during the legal analysis process and the metadata attribute to describe the content of the acts detect dates identify relations to other acts or classify the acts by using different criteria so we can say that the legal analysis methodology is always know how on how it's open know how in the field of cataloging of illegal acts about the metadata that are used about the meaning and the use of the elements metadata elements that are attributed some of those metadata we are working with we are looking at it just their presence or not presents all the values that are used might indicate whether the ACT is part of the primary law international agreements or secondary law so we are coming to the hierarchy of norms in the EU law and this is very important because the legal analyzing methodology is trying cover to cover also this part but uh okay the metadata elements that we are using must come from somewhere and those metadata elements are based on the legal Concepts and such legal Concepts very in principle provided by the legislators so here we have some examples from the treaty on the functioning of the European Union where you can see in some of the Articles it's said that legislative acts enter into Force another case directives and decisions should be addressed they should be notified it means there should be date of notification and they should take effect regulations have General applicability and they are Abiding and recommendations or opinions have no abiding force and final example legislative acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure must be signed signed by the president of the European Parliament and president of the council uh but not only this there are also some internal rules then drafting EU legislation that are applied so for example we know that the legal acts must be signed but only legislative acts contained in the title the date of signature so we are moving from those legal Concepts on the left side two metadata elements that are used by the legal analysis and that are just abstract representation of those legal Concepts but this is just one direction because on other side those legal those legal metadata elements are encode in commodity model which is frbr based ontology that is used by the Publications office for all the resources that we are publishing uh and uh last but not least legal analysis methodology not only describe the metadata elements but it also tries to describe classes of illegal acts that are again abstractions of the tiers of hierarchy of EU legal Norms so legal analysis methodology provides selection of metadata that are determinative or suitable for every class including cardinality and values constraints and this is done on very specific level just very shortly about the process about the operations that are performed by the legal analysis everything starts somewhere here then XML representation of the document that should be published in the official Journal of the European Union or on eurolex website is created this contains content HTML or PDF file and it also contains some basic metadata that are needed just to create such external representation legal analyzes should classify the legal document it should validate the metadata that are already available and it should also enrich the notice with some additional legal data another step is quality control it means verification of the completed description what was already done and another step in the whole process Islam legal analysis methodologic maintenance it means regular improvements that are motivated by daily workflow or they might be motivated by feedback from other stakeholders institutions or they might be motivated by new projects that are coming or by developments of common data model or our encoding schemas name Authority list so the whole process that I am trying to describe here is a cycle it's a constant movement but the legal analysis methodology impacts the daily workflow and the daily workflow impacts the legal analysis methodology our problem before the project was that all the legal on this methodology was just a set of plain text set of what Excel or PDF files and the whole process was really becoming larger therefore we decided to move from a plain text into a structured data by keeping the whole content of the legal analysis methodology it means by keeping all the descriptions of metadata elements and classes and also by improving the maintenance phase interactiveness of the legal analysis or getting feedback from other stakeholders so uh what we did we start with unstructured data and then we prepared a semi-structured data in principle that was an Excel file and then after doing some analyzings and preparing from the technical side the transformed this Excel file into structure lamb data expressed in scores already here we can manage our legal analysis methodology in workbench and we can transform it to PDF and also to HTML that can be used for our web application but not only this we can transform legal analyze methodology to a formal to a formal structure data that are expressed by the pontology language and what is most important also into set of formal data shapes that are expressed by shark language there are some constraints defined by the legal analysis methodology can be also from realized so what we achieved was that we moved from the plain text to structured data by keeping all the descriptions of the metadata elements we formalized correspondence to the formal properties in common data model but we also formalized a correspondence to Auto read lists that we are using and we formalize also constraints on how the classes are defined it means constraints metadata elements for example range cardinality or specific property values constraints so and this brings us to the question how the legal analysis methodology as a structured data can contribute to the automation of the legal analysis process legal analysis process system daily on the daily basis and there is really big amount of documents covered by this and everything is just a human work so if you do not have a clear answer yet but we know that the legal analysis methodology can enrich commodity model but also some other additional services for example markup from this point of view legal analysis might be understood as a specific extension that is applicable for the legal documents published in the official journal or on eurolex website we also know that legal analyze methodology structure data itself can provide some automatic verification and validation of the data so we can drive the indexation process just one specific example if we get regulation of the European Parliament and the council the system is able to recognize okay this is legislative act and as a legislative act it must have date of signature it must have date of entering to force it must have enter validity date in the legal basis it must have at least found linked to specific article of the treaty and it must have a link to interstitutional procedure or it can't have date of effects it can't have date of notification but we do not know in many cases are the values and therefore also cooperation with other services as for example proper markup or probably data mining a document mining might be might be very helpful so just to sum up significant automatization of the legal analysis process is only possible if real interopolitability between Lam commodity model and some other additional services will be achieved thank you very much thank you yurai thank you very much for being a sharp sharp on time and that gives us time for the questions that we have received um what efforts are needed to go from plain text to structured data and to finally reach automation of the legal analysis well the last term you mentioned analysis is needed because we started really with plenty of pages for documents and it was really difficult to think about the structure how the structured such data so it took you a lot of time to find out the correct way for structuring of those data and then okay the rest was just a technical technical process that was that was managed by our external consultant second part of the question and this was also the question I was trying to answer coming to authorization of the legal analysis process well today I think it was this part of today's session there was already one presentation about drafting legislation in the era of artificial intelligence there are also some days how the drafting of a vlog can be simplified can be adapted to to the semantically to the artificial intelligence can be introduced based on also inter Alia also an augmentosa for EU I think here we would need some cooperation with our colleagues with different Services of the European commission at least or also some other institutions just to be able to to follow this process from the beginning we hope that the legal analyze methodology as a structured data can help in this process thank you and then we have another question at EU agencies our processes depend much on the legal definitions in your legs are the Article 2 definitions of the concepts there linked to their ontologies well we do not have such interlinking with EU agencies but okay when speaking about starting the process from the drafting of legislation and then ending neural X in the official Journal of the European Union if the whole process will have the same background the same basis I think we can achieve also this thank you thanks very much uh for being with us uh today and and for answering the questions um that we have received have a nice evening and bye-bye