{"title":"A Methodology for Evaluating Advanced Legal Data Infrastructures","authors":"Shefali Virkar, E. Loukis, C. Alexopoulos","doi":"10.1145/3494193.3494205","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"∗Legal information is of paramount importance for social, economic and political activities. Sophisticated legal information retrieval (LIR) systems are designed and built to facilitate user access to accurate and current legal information. The advent of new types of capabilities in the legal information systems domain has necessitated a closer look at the performance and usability of such advanced computer systems, and brought into sharp focus the requirement for an effective evaluation of the available functionalities and quality of the software. The purpose of this research paper is to develop a framework for the effective monitoring and evaluation of an advanced legal information system from differing salient perspectives, and to critically examine the basic set of attributes that characterize the important dimensions of platform functionality. Through the application of the developed evaluation model to a novel legal data platform, we propose both a rigorous validation of the framework itself, together with the identification of the strengths and shortcomings associated with the use of the system under consideration.","PeriodicalId":360191,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3494193.3494205","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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∗Legal information is of paramount importance for social, economic and political activities. Sophisticated legal information retrieval (LIR) systems are designed and built to facilitate user access to accurate and current legal information. The advent of new types of capabilities in the legal information systems domain has necessitated a closer look at the performance and usability of such advanced computer systems, and brought into sharp focus the requirement for an effective evaluation of the available functionalities and quality of the software. The purpose of this research paper is to develop a framework for the effective monitoring and evaluation of an advanced legal information system from differing salient perspectives, and to critically examine the basic set of attributes that characterize the important dimensions of platform functionality. Through the application of the developed evaluation model to a novel legal data platform, we propose both a rigorous validation of the framework itself, together with the identification of the strengths and shortcomings associated with the use of the system under consideration.