“Peri Nomou” System: Automated Codification and Interrelation of Legal Elements Based on Text Mining

One of the most promising developments comes with the use of innovative technologies and thus with the availability of novel services. The combination of text mining with legal elements may contribute to the development of many innovative legal information systems. Moreover, in the case of public admin-istrations and governments, the distribution, availability, and access towards legal information are es-sential and urgent. On the other hand, legal data and law texts are a potential open Government data category in order for innovation to be achieved, regarding the development of new, better, and more cost-effective services for citizens. Those data need to be available 24/7 basis and compliant towards a standard. Yet, there exist some severe issues at the moment regarding this access. This, in turn, makes the use of automated crawling and analysis more than difficult. This paper describes the “Peri Nomou” (about law) system: an innovative legal information system for Greek laws utilising text mining tech-niques to indexing legal documents, identifying correlations and dividing legal documents into their articles. The first version of the system has been evaluated by legal experts and the second version is developed based on the previous evaluation and presented in this paper. The results from the evaluation indicate the significance of the “Peri Nomou” system for the legal experts and allow us to promote the Peri Nomou system to other user groups, such as business, public administration

Benefits and Obstacles of Blockchain Applications in e-Government

Nowadays, Blockchain Technologies (BCT) could be characterized as one of the most promising trends. We are currently witnessing a plethora of implementations basically in the economic sector with the creation of cryptocurrencies. The majority of researchers and practitioners argues that many benefits could be derived from the use of this innovative technology with the most significant one being the improved sense of trust to BCT applications. At the same time governments pursue amplified trust from their citizens and BCT is gaining momentum since it addresses this of utmost importance problem based on its unique characteristics. More and more governments realize the advances of this technology and participate in pilot applications in different vertical governmental sectors. Even though there are several implementations in the Government sector, there is no comprehensive study towards the analysis of the major characteristics of these developments. This paper moves towards the fulfilment of this gap conducting a thorough analysis of e-Government pilot applications of BCT in a European level. Furthermore, this study discusses the key benefits and main barriers coming from the application of this technology in different domains with BCT experts

Αυτοματοποιημένη κωδικοποίηση της ελληνικής νομοθεσίας και δημιουργία συσχετίσεων μεταξύ των νόμων

Κλειδωμένη η δυνατότητα αντιγραφής (copy) κειμένου.Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αφορά τη λειτουργία του συστήματος «Περί Νόμου», το οποίο είναι ικανό να πραγματοποιεί, αυτοματοποιημένα, κωδικοποίηση της Ελληνικής νομοθεσίας και δημιουργία συσχετίσεων μεταξύ των νόμων. Περιλαμβάνει μία λεπτομερή ανάλυση νομικών εγγράφων με σκοπό την απόκτηση συγκεκριμένων πληροφοριών και δεδομένων καθώς και την εξαγωγή τους, προκειμένου να επιτευχθεί η ομαλή λειτουργία του συστήματος. Επίσης, γίνεται ανάλυση των συστημάτων που υπάρχουν στην Ελληνική Επικράτεια και του τρόπου λειτουργίας τους και έρευνα, αντίστοιχων με αυτά, στο εξωτερικό. Τέλος, παρουσιάζεται ο τρόπος σχεδίασης και λειτουργίας του «Περί Νόμου» και γίνονται αναφορές για μελλοντικές προσθήκες και βελτιώσεις για τη μεγιστοποίηση της λειτουργίας του.This thesis presents the system “Περί Νόμου”, which is capable of performing automated coding of Greek Laws and creating relationships that exist in current laws. It includes a detailed analysis of legal documents in order to obtain specific information and data and their export in order to achieve the smooth operation of the system. Also, it includes an analysis of other systems that exist in the Greek Territory and the way they work and research of systems, similar to those above, which exist abroad. Finally, it presents “Περί Νόμου” design method and some future additions could be made for its better functioning