Lexical resources for Accessing to Public Sector Information

Maria-Teresa Sagri, Daniela Tiscornia

2004

Abstract

In many countries, public institutions, as the main producers and distributors of legal source of information, have promoted projects aimed at improving the availability and the free access to information via the web as a significant component of the process of transparency in citizen/institution interaction. This paper describes the state of the art in terms of European projects created by public institutions for facilitating access to regulatory information and it focuses the necessity of integrating structural documentary standards with semantic ones for the description of content. The Italian JurWordNet project is a source of semantic metadata aimed at supporting the semantic interoperability between sectors of Public Administration; the creation of a multilingual lexicon that extends the Italian model to five European languages (the aim of the Lois Project that has recently been approved by the EU) is also described.

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Sagri M. and Tiscornia D. (2004). Lexical resources for Accessing to Public Sector Information . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004) ISBN 972-8865-17-1, pages 1-12. DOI: 10.5220/0001389300010012


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@conference{egcdmas04,
author={Maria-Teresa Sagri and Daniela Tiscornia},
title={Lexical resources for Accessing to Public Sector Information},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={1-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001389300010012},
isbn={972-8865-17-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Government and Commerce: Design, Modeling, Analysis and Security - Volume 1: EGCDMAS, (ICETE 2004)
TI - Lexical resources for Accessing to Public Sector Information
SN - 972-8865-17-1
AU - Sagri M.
AU - Tiscornia D.
PY - 2004
SP - 1
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0001389300010012