Towards an Automatic Consolidation of French Law

TL;DR

This paper introduces Legistix, a tool that automates the consolidation of French and European law texts by generating programs from natural language legal documents, streamlining legal updates.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach combining regular expressions and a specialized functional language to automatically generate consolidated legal texts from natural language documents.

Findings

Legistix successfully generates consolidated legal texts automatically.

The tool uses a combination of regex-based grammars and a functional language.

Preliminary results show promising automation in legal text consolidation.

Abstract

We present preliminary results about Legistix, a tool we are developing to automatically consolidate the French and European law. Legistix is based both on regular expressions used in several compound grammars, similar to the successive passes of a compiler, and on a new specialized language of functional type, allowing to describe the changes applied to the texts. Instead of creating manually a full consolidated version of a text at each modification date, Legistix generates automatically programs from legal documents written in natural language to automatically create the consolidated versions.