orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes): Regarding your S-V-O (Subject Verb Object in computational legal linguistics) observation, that 'syllogistic legal systems' would "require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles as opposed to facts," am curious, brainstorming-wise, what the role of a realistic virtual earth for languages * * * * New friend: communes are still happening; Searched 'hippy communes in northern California in 2020'

Thanks for your message this morning in LI, Megan, and re S-V-O metadata for other languages, and other legal systems. What a great opportunity to build a realistic virtual earth for law - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw?src=hashtag_click - and legal meanings. Seems like a fascinating opportunity too especially for building a realistic virtual earth for languages - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages&src=typeahead_click - and regarding  requiring "far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles." Since CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop online free-to-students' degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, MD and IB high school in all ~200 countries and their official main languages), and since MIT doesn't have a law (or a medical school), WUaS is seeking to explore collaboration with Stanford Law for online law schools in all ~200 countries' official languages in these regards.  

Scott:

as a follow on to Roland's questions, how would or might "Deconstructing Legal Text: Object-Oriented Design in Legal Adjudication" work with Google's NLP approaches? ... And how could you then (re Google Translate) build further models that would increase understanding of legal texts in other languages?

Megan:

Hi Scott, sorry for the late response! Yes, we’re looking into that at a (sadly) later stage, provided that not only are legal judgments expressed in a different language, they’re equally bound by different legal systems. The civil law system (like in continental Europe), for example, has a different method of reasoning relying more prominently in deductive reasoning. Since they do not explicitly follow precedent, and instead use syllogisms, the fundamental breakdown of sentences to the Subject-Verb-Object structure will largely remain the same, but would require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles as opposed to facts.

Scott:

Understood

Megan:

I do think it’d be great to tackle more languages! We were thinking of moving into French next actually

Scott: 

Thanks for your reply, Megan! And great that you speak Cantonese too! Are you familiar with the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project CGCP - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu ? The Stanford CGCP project has involved, as I understand this, translating the Beijing Supreme Court's rulings into English (87 rulings 3 or 4 years ago) and then back into Mandarin, thus perhaps helping to give China law a whole new basis - and in a time of legal reform in China. Regarding your SVO observation, that 'syllogistic legal systems' would "require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles as opposed to facts," am curious, brainstorming-wise, what the role of a realistic virtual earth for languages -  https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages&src=typeahead_click in ONE single realistic virtual earth for such metadata could be - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click. Am thinking again, per my questions of the Google ecosystem, and Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Translate ... and also especially with realistic 'artificial humans,' aka Samsung Neons.

Scott:

Megan, here are the beginning China Law School at WUaS -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS , China World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China - both planned in Mandarin (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ), Cantonese, and other main languages in China for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric online degrees, as well as in all languages in China as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. And here's France World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/France - planned in the French language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/French_language ... and the beginnings of an Universal Translator for all 7,117 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator (building on Google Translate, in about 100 main languages + Wikidata in Wikipedia's ~300 languages). I'd think Dmitriy would have fascinating knowledge to facilitate a first step in French and beyond! Best regards, Scott

Megan, your message also suggests to me a further approach to build a single realistic virtual earth with a key S-V-O language focus, and in designing it for everything, like, Landon, and Megan a #realistic virtual earth for surgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - and: 

'Even with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.8 billion people (emerging from Duke / Stanford / Google's Project Baseline) @califf001 @researchmatters @PCORnetwork @texhern and potentially too in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery part of a single #RealisticVirtualEarth?'

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1306325041055899648?s=20 

Thank you!

Best regards, Scott

Megan: 

Yes, wow this is incredible! I’m actually meeting up with the team tomorrow to discuss legal texts from jurisdictions written in non-English languages given the feedback we’ve received since yesterday. There’s definitely much more we could work with. I think your ideas regarding the “virtual earth” may be interesting from the perspective of how cultural surroundings may have an impact on the formation of legal norms...

All is to say, this is super stimulating and would love to dive even deeper!

Scott: