Entity Graph Extraction from Legal Acts -- a Prototype for a Use Case in Policy Design Analysis
This work addresses the need for automated tools in political science to analyze policy design, though it appears incremental as a prototype focused on a specific use case.
The paper tackles the problem of automating quantitative policy design analysis by developing a prototype that extracts entity graphs from legal acts, specifically testing it on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage from 2003.
This paper presents research on a prototype developed to serve the quantitative study of public policy design. This sub-discipline of political science focuses on identifying actors, relations between them, and tools at their disposal in health, environmental, economic, and other policies. Our system aims to automate the process of gathering legal documents, annotating them with Institutional Grammar, and using hypergraphs to analyse inter-relations between crucial entities. Our system is tested against the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage from 2003, a legal document regulating essential aspects of international relations securing cultural heritage.