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Legal Semantics

Legal Semantics is the systematic study of meaning in legal language, distinguished by its focus on the interpretation of linguistic expressions within legal texts according to formal, context-invariant rules of meaning.

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8.6K

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441

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213

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2017–2026

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Publications

252

Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy

Scott Brewer · Harvard Law Review · 1996 · 288 citations

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A dictionary of modern legal usage

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 210 citations

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<b>Legal discourse</b> : Studies in linguistics, rhetoric and legal analysis. By Peter Goodrich. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. x, 266. $29.95.

Edwin Battistella · Language · 1989 · 178 citations · Full text

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The LKIF core ontology of basic legal concepts

Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Marcello Di Bello et al. · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2007 · 165 citations · Full text

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LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English

Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung et al. · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2022 · 155 citations · Full text

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Authors

441

  1. JB
    Joost Breuker

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    10 publications · 475 citations

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  2. GS
    Giovanni Sartor

    University of Bologna, Italy

    9 publications · 374 citations

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  3. MP
    Monica Palmirani

    University of Bologna, Italy

    6 publications · 181 citations

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  4. RH
    Rinke Hoekstra

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    6 publications · 296 citations

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  5. LR
    Livio Robaldo

    University of Turin, Italy

    5 publications · 169 citations

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Institutions

213

  1. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    13 h-index

    24 publications

    662 citations

  2. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    27 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of Turin

    Turin, Italy

    10 h-index

    31 publications

    739 citations

  4. University of Luxembourg

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    540 citations

  5. University of Liverpool

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    333 citations

  6. Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques

    Florence, Italy

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    412 citations

  7. University of Évora

    Evora, Portugal

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    162 citations

  8. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    182 citations

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Venues

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Law

    AIL · 24 publications · 867 citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 9 publications · 230 citations

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  3. Ratio Juris

    8 publications · 323 citations

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  4. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)

    Repository · 7 publications · 320 citations

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