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Record W2085476362 · doi:10.1093/slr/hmm002

Legislative Drafting and Language in Canada

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

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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.236
Threshold uncertainty score0.886

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.010
Science and technology studies0.0250.009
Scholarly communication0.0120.002
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.001

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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