Automatic classification of provisions in legislative texts.

Legislation usually lacks a systematic organization which makes the management and the access to norm a hard problem to face.A more analytic semantic unit of reference (provision) for legislative texts was identified.A model of provisions (provisions types and their arguments)allows to describe the semantics of rules in legislative texts.It can be used to develop advanced semantic-based applications an services on legislation.In this paper an automatic bottom-up strategy to qualify existing legislative texts in terms of provision types is described.