Passage retrieval in legal texts

[EN] Legal texts usually comprise many kinds of texts, such as contracts, patents and treaties. These texts usually include a huge quantity of unstructured information written in natural language. Thanks to automatic analysis and Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, it is possible to filter out information that is not relevant and, therefore, to reduce the amount of documents that users need to browse to find the information they are looking for. In this paper we adapted the JIRS passage retrieval system to work with three kinds of legal texts: treaties, patents and contracts, studying the issues related with the processing of this kind of information. In particular, we studied how a passage retrieval system might be linked up to automated analysis based on logic and algebraic programming for the detection of conflicts in contracts. In our set-up, a contract is translated into formal clauses, which are analysed by means of a model checking tool; then, the passage retrieval system is used to extract conflicting sentences from the original contract text. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.We thank the MICINN (Plan I+D+i) TEXT-ENTERPRISE 2.0: (TIN2009-13391-C04-03) research project. The work of the second author has been possible thanks to a scholarship funded by Maat Gknowledge in the framework of the project with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Módulo de servicios semánticos de la plataforma GRosso, P.; Correa García, S.; Buscaldi, D. (2011). Passage retrieval in legal texts. Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming. 80(3-5):139-153. doi:10.1016/j.jlap.2011.02.001S139153803-

Eighteenth-century responses to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

This thesis is a synchronic reception study of a single play, the Oedipus at Colonus. Rather than providing a commentary, or extracting one or two themes in isolation for examination, it considers the play through the lens of the eighteenth century. In so doing it offers a variety of disciplinary approaches, looking at the QC through the eyes of an aesthetic philosopher, creative writer, textual critic, artist, politician, historian, art historian, composer, musicologist, teacher or clergyman. After an introduction outlining some basic presuppositions for the thesis, chapter 1 covers aesthetic philosophy, chapter 2 books, chapter 3 staged reworking, chapter 4 paintings and chapter 5 opera. In reflecting on the play from such a broad range of perspectives, a range of insights emerge. The major theme is the way in which aesthetics develops over time and how these developments are reflected in the wide range of material under discussion. This thesis is about the sublime. Reading the DC through eighteenth-century eyes prioritises certain aspects of it which can, in various guises and at various times, be understood as sublime. This places great emphasis on themes such as religion and the role of landscape, while diminishing others, such as that of blindness, which might usually seem obvious ways to think about the play. Each act of reception draws out something slightly different from the Greek model, and by examining a range of material, our overall appreciation of the play and the eighteenth century is significantly enhanced, particularly in respect to the aforementioned themes

Eighteenth-century responses to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

This thesis is a synchronic reception study of a single play, the Oedipus at Colonus. Rather than providing a commentary, or extracting one or two themes in isolation for examination, it considers the play through the lens of the eighteenth century. In so doing it offers a variety of disciplinary approaches, looking at the QC through the eyes of an aesthetic philosopher, creative writer, textual critic, artist, politician, historian, art historian, composer, musicologist, teacher or clergyman. After an introduction outlining some basic presuppositions for the thesis, chapter 1 covers aesthetic philosophy, chapter 2 books, chapter 3 staged reworking, chapter 4 paintings and chapter 5 opera. In reflecting on the play from such a broad range of perspectives, a range of insights emerge. The major theme is the way in which aesthetics develops over time and how these developments are reflected in the wide range of material under discussion. This thesis is about the sublime. Reading the DC through eighteenth-century eyes prioritises certain aspects of it which can, in various guises and at various times, be understood as sublime. This places great emphasis on themes such as religion and the role of landscape, while diminishing others, such as that of blindness, which might usually seem obvious ways to think about the play. Each act of reception draws out something slightly different from the Greek model, and by examining a range of material, our overall appreciation of the play and the eighteenth century is significantly enhanced, particularly in respect to the aforementioned themes

La storiografia tebana di età ellenistica. Testo, traduzione e commento dei frammenti su Tebe di Timagora, Lico, Aristodemo di Tebe e Lisimaco di Alessandria

Questa tesi dottorale riguarda la storiografia tebana di età ellenistica e si propone di offrire testo, traduzione e commento dei frammenti pervenutici di Timagora, Lico, Aristodemo di Tebe e Lisimaco di Alessandria

L'écriture "indécidable" de Régis Jauffret : entre saturation, accumulation, minimalisme et maximalisme

La présente thèse vise à dégager un modèle alternatif du récit et de la narrativité permettant de les percevoir dans leur nature narrative et générique indécidable à l'intérieur de six textes de Régis Jauffret : Microfictions, Asiles de fous, Univers, univers, Les jeux de plage, Promenade et Fragments de la vie des gens. Nous tenterons de redéfinir les concepts de récit et de narrativité tels qu'expérimentés à la lecture des textes de Jauffret selon une logique passionnelle, potentielle et non causale. En effet, vu le système narratif indécidable de ces œuvres, notre propos dans cette thèse est de montrer en quoi la logique passionnelle et potentielle constitue un moyen d'analyse crucial dans la démonstration d'un effet du récit, d'un effet d'intrigue et d'un effet romanesque. Du coup, l'écriture de Jauffret est marquée par l'idée de retour au point de départ, ou peu après, ou bien de recommencement perpétuel, détachée de la notion de dénouement ou de la mise en intrigue, ce qui nie même l'aventure de l'écriture d'une histoire ou de la narration d'un récit. Cela laisse l'effet, la trace d'un récit plutôt qu'un récit complet et achevé. Par conséquent, la lecture se trouve lasse de suivre les traces et d'interagir avec les effets de l'aventure de cette écriture. En outre, vu l'état fragmentaire des textes, ils risquent évidemment d'être classés comme recueils de nouvelles ou de perdre toute possibilité de classement générique. Même avec la mention "roman" ou "fictions", les textes ne se limitent pas au huis clos des définitions raccrochées au roman canonique ; leur statut est ambivalent. Dès lors, ranger les œuvres de Jauffret sous des qualifications comme le minimalisme ou le postmodernisme semble une manière de considérer qu'elles n'ont rien d'autre à offrir et peut nous empêcher d'y voir ce qui en déborde