From semantic weight to legal ontology via classification of concepts in legal texts

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI:10.1080/03069400.2023.2173918

Neil Grainger Allison

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ABSTRACT A difficulty with legal vocabulary is that concepts in different legal systems map imperfectly to each other, particularly from common law systems where classification is often unclear or convoluted to codified civil systems. Even within the English language domain there are numerous legal systems where concepts differ, e.g. between Scotland and England. This causes significant problems for students’, especially foreign language students’, reading comprehension and developing understanding of legal lexis where translation dictionaries, while they may be efficient, are imperfect. This article sets out a classification approach to reading and English language legal concept deep understanding rooted in theories from education and cognitive linguistics, in particular Categories and Prototypes, Schema theory, and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). I have used the approach successfully for some years with international students studying law in Scotland, assisting their reading of textbooks and especially journal articles while building domain knowledge. The application of the strategy is presented in the context of research on the adoption of reading strategies which finds that adoption is influenced by awareness of the complexity of the concepts in the text, complexity of the strategy, and by how much particular strategies are seen as a valid method in legal study.

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从语义权重到法律本体论——兼论法律文本中概念的分类

摘要法律词汇的一个困难是，不同法律体系中的概念相互映射不完美，特别是从分类往往不清楚或复杂的普通法系到编纂成文的民事体系。即使在英语领域，也有许多概念不同的法律体系，例如苏格兰和英格兰。这给学生，尤其是外语学生的阅读理解和对法律词汇的理解带来了重大问题，尽管翻译词典可能很有效，但并不完善。本文提出了一种基于教育和认知语言学理论的阅读和英语法律概念深层理解的分类方法，特别是分类和原型理论、图式理论和合法代码理论。多年来，我成功地将这种方法用于在苏格兰学习法律的国际学生，帮助他们阅读教科书，尤其是期刊文章，同时积累领域知识。该策略的应用是在阅读策略采用研究的背景下提出的，研究发现，阅读策略的采用受到对文本中概念复杂性的认识、策略复杂性以及特定策略在多大程度上被视为法律研究中的有效方法的影响。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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312

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2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.