Towards an Automatic Consolidation of French Law
This addresses the labor-intensive task of legal consolidation for practitioners, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing parsing and functional programming techniques.
The authors tackled the problem of manually consolidating French and European law by developing Legistix, a tool that automatically generates consolidated versions from legal documents using regular expressions and a functional language, achieving automation without requiring full manual updates at each modification.
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.