Paper on Law Analysis published
Jan 26, 2015
A paper has been accepted for publication at the International Symposium for Legal Informatic. In the paper entitled "Comparison of Law Texts: An Analysis of German and Austrian Legislation regarding Linguistic and Structural Metrics", the author team (Bernhard Waltl and Florian Matthes) discusses the analysis of legal texts regarding to linguistic metrics. Thereby, they extended an existing set of complexity indicators regarding linguistic and structural properties and applied them to Austrian and German laws. Based on the results that were generated, it is possible to formally compare laws and determine inter-subjective insights. See [Wa15a]