Visualization
Visual representations of legal text, in order to make it easier for humans to read.
Diagrams
- C-O diagrams
- Diagram notation in Normalized legal drafting and the Query method (Allen, 1978)#
- Graphs generated from licenses at Licentia
Formatting
More low-key visualization aid.
- Break down sentences into smaller chunks
- Use bullet points
- Use indentation
- Use hyphens or parentheses to avoid attachment ambiguity
Example from Camilleri (2017):
if {the flight} leaves {in two hours} then both
- {the ground crew} must open {the check-in desk}
- {the ground crew} must request {the passenger manifest}
(The particular example also happens to be a Controlled Natural Language# that compiles to a formal representation. But this is an orthogonal question.)
See also Tabular interface#