vinci: Legal Requirements Engineering

Computer science project thesis development.

Abstract: Within legal engineering, artificial agents are needed with the ability to extract knowledge and patterns within legal documents to create applications that assist professionals to perform certain tasks, many of which need to be executed in real time, recovering and analyzing regulations of the official bulletins. Currently, the search for relevant regulations for certain activities within a company is done manually and involves numerous professionals from different areas within it. In the industrial field, the previous task is known as legal requirements engineering. This work proposes an online support system for legal engineering in order to transform legal requirements engineering into a semi-automatic activity.

Luciano Perezzini, Universidad Nacional de Rosario

2018 - 2019

Important software used

Docker
Splash package: a Javascript rendering service. Used to render dynamic websites.
MongoDB
Pipvenv

Crawlers

Implemented multiple spiders to crawl websites containing legal documents from the Argentinian Gov. Must be runned under some time-based job scheduler like Cron.

Local environment

Set the following paths in a .env file:

# Home
PROJECT_PATH=

# Database
DB_SERVER=
DB_PORT=
DB_NAME=

# Spanish language data
ES_PATH=${PROJECT_PATH}/data/spanish
ES_VOC_PATH=${ES_PATH}/voc.csv
ES_LEMMAS_PATH=${ES_PATH}/lemmas.txt
ES_STOPWORDS_PATH=${ES_PATH}/stopwords.csv
CONTEXT_STOPWORDS_PATH=${ES_PATH}/context-stopwords.csv


# SAIJ thesaurus
THESAURUS_PATH=${PROJECT_PATH}/data/thesaurus/saij/derecho-argentino.rdf

# Internet resources
BO_NACIONAL=https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/seccion/primera
BO_PROVINCIAL=https://www.santafe.gob.ar/boletinoficial
BO_MUNICIPAL=http://sanlorenzo.gob.ar/ordenanzas

Install project's requirements

pipenv install

Python version 3.5.6

Classifiers

Four text classifiers (Derecho Ambiental -> Desechos peligrosos and Derecho Laboral -> Accidentes de trabajo) were trained and are available from this link.

Note: refer to test folder for further instructions.