A Service Infrastructure for the Italian Digital Justice

Valerio Bellandi, Silvana Castano, Stefano Montanelli, Davide Riva, Stefano Siccardi

Abstract: The management of legal documents, especially court judgments, can be a daunting task due to the vast amounts of data involved. Traditional methods of managing legal documents are no longer sufficient, as the volume of data continues to increase, leading to the need for more advanced and efficient systems. The proposed infrastructure seeks to address this challenge by organizing a repository of textual documents and annotating them in a way that facilitates various downstream tasks. The framework is designed to be developed and maintained in a sustainable way, ensuring multiple services and uses of the annotated document repository while considering the limited availability of annotated data. This approach ensures that the output of the annotation algorithms aligns with the organizational processes used in Italian courts. The experiments conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the solution employed different low-resource methods and solutions designed to combine these approaches in a meaningful way.