How to Simplify Law Automatically? A Study on South Korean Legislation and Its Simplified Version

Stefanie Urchs, Akshaya Muralidharan, Florian Matthes

2022

Abstract

People with a low literacy level have problems understanding complex texts. Especially legal texts can be challenging. Automatic Text Simplification (TS) can help to make the legal text more accessible. However, most TS research is based on Wikipedia articles and newspaper articles. To be able to use automatic TS on the legal text we have to understand what constitutes simple legal text. Therefore, we examine the English translation of South Korean legislation and its official simplification. Subsequently, we use state of the art TS models on the legislation text. The models simplify the text only quantitatively lacking in retaining the context of the original text.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Urchs S., Muralidharan A. and Matthes F. (2022). How to Simplify Law Automatically? A Study on South Korean Legislation and Its Simplified Version. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 697-704. DOI: 10.5220/0010894000003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Stefanie Urchs and Akshaya Muralidharan and Florian Matthes},
title={How to Simplify Law Automatically? A Study on South Korean Legislation and Its Simplified Version},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={697-704},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010894000003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,
TI - How to Simplify Law Automatically? A Study on South Korean Legislation and Its Simplified Version
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Urchs S.
AU - Muralidharan A.
AU - Matthes F.
PY - 2022
SP - 697
EP - 704
DO - 10.5220/0010894000003116