Graphie: A network-based visual interface for UK's Primary Legislation
Evan Tzanis, Pierpaolo Vivo, Yanik-Pascal F\"orster, Luca Gamberi,, Alessia Annibale

TL;DR
Graphie is a network-based visual interface that enables users to explore the hierarchical structure of UK legislation, making legal content more accessible and navigable through interactive visualization tools.
Contribution
It introduces a scalable, versatile platform that visualizes UK Acts as network graphs, enhancing legal document exploration beyond traditional text-based methods.
Findings
Effective visualization of the Housing Act 2004 hierarchy
User-friendly navigation with interactive features
Scalable platform adaptable to various legal documents
Abstract
We present Graphie, a novel navigational interface to visualize Acts and Bills included in the UK's legislation digital repository [legislation.gov.uk]. Graphie provides a network representation of the hierarchical structure of an Act of Parliament, which is typically organized in a tree-like fashion according to the content and information contained in each sub-branch. Nodes in Graphie represent sections of an Act (or individual provisions), while links embody the hierarchical connections between them. The legal map provided by Graphie is easily navigable by hovering on nodes, which are also color-coded and numbered to provide easily accessible information about the underlying content. The full textual content of each node is also available on a dedicated hyperlinked canvas. The building block of Graphie is Sofia, an offline data pipeline designed to support different data…
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TopicsArtificial Intelligence in Law · Law in Society and Culture
