Estructura, semántica, extracción de información y XML legislativo: experiencias en la Universidad de Valladolid

The extraction of the structure implicit in legislative documents content, followed by its elicitation and representing as XML markup, is one of the bases of the work developed in the University of Valladolid by the team of researchers interested in the electronic management of legislative texts. An important advantage is that a set of additional processes of information extraction, management, navigation, and semantic searching, in which structure plays a significant role, can be tackled once this information is made available to automatic processes in the form of XML data. This paper offers an overview of the work made by the team until now.