Graphie: A network-based visual interface for the UK's primary legislation.
Evan Tzanis1, Pierpaolo Vivo1, Yanik-Pascal Förster1
1Quantitative and Digital Law Lab, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK.
F1000Research
|June 2, 2023
Summary
Graphie offers a novel way to visualize UK legal documents, transforming complex Acts into navigable network graphs. This tool enhances legal corpus exploration by presenting hierarchical structures through interactive text and visual representations.
Area of Science:
- Legal Informatics
- Computational Law
- Data Visualization
Background:
- Current UK legal platforms like legislation.gov.uk lack intuitive navigation between related legal documents and provisions.
- Existing platforms offer only text-based rendering, limiting user comprehension of complex legal structures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce Graphie, a novel navigational tool designed to address limitations in legal document exploration.
- To provide alternative visualizations of legal documents using both text and graph-based representations.
Main Methods:
- Development of Sofia, an offline data pipeline to parse and model data from legislation.gov.uk.
- Creation of Graphie, a tool that generates network representations of legal Acts.
Main Results:
- Graphie visualizes the hierarchical structure of Acts as a network, with nodes representing provisions and links showing hierarchical connections.
- The platform offers an interactive, navigable legal map with color-coded, numbered nodes for easy information access.
- Full textual content is available for each node on a hyperlinked canvas.
Conclusions:
- Graphie provides a scalable and versatile platform for visualizing and exploring the UK legal corpus.
- The tool offers a fast, user-friendly, unified toolbox for legal document analysis.
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