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Record W2085476362 · doi:10.1093/slr/hmm002

Legislative Drafting and Language in Canada

2007· article· en· W2085476362 on OpenAlex
S. Lortie, R. C. Bergeron

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueStatute Law Review · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Language and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegislationObligationNormativeGovernment (linguistics)LegislatureLawCivilizationPolitical scienceSociologyLaw and economicsLinguistics

Abstract

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Good government requires that laws be expressed clearly. Normative texts serve to integrate within the law a government's policies on social and economic conditions and the rights and obligations of individuals and larger entities. The language of these texts should therefore be precise and easy to understand. But the need for laws to be well written goes well beyond the technical requirements of the legal sphere. For, laws and the language used to express them are directly connected to the everyday practices and general concepts that form the basis of society and civilization. The relationship between laws, language, and society is close and complex. However, few are aware of the high degree to which legislation shapes language, with the result that the impact of legislation on everyday communication tends to be seriously underestimated. Yet, the words, expressions, and underlying concepts used in many areas of human activity are in fact taken directly from or heavily influenced by the very language of the laws that govern these fields. The state therefore has a fundamental obligation to ensure that its legislation is carefully composed, clearly expressed, and of consistently high quality in its language as a whole.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.163

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it