About the Project
Project title: Legal Terminology Management in the Digital Age
Project acronym: LawTermAI
Project number: uniri-iz-25-63
Project financing: European Union – NextGenerationEU
Project duration: 1 October 2025 – 30 September 2029
Total value of the project (EUR): 48.532,06
Legal disclaimer: This project is funded by European Union – NextGenerationEU via the Croatian National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026, in conjunction with the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law Programme Financing. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.
Project Leader
Name and surname: Assoc. Prof. Martina Bajčić
E-mail: martina.bajcic@uniri.hr
Project Team Members
- Asst. Prof. Dejana Golenko, dejana.golenko@pravri.uniri.hr
- Assoc. Prof. Mirjana Borucinsky, mirjana.borucinsky@pfri.uniri.hr
- Asst. Prof. Jana Kegalj, jana.kegalj@pfri.uniri.hr
- Prof. Dr. Ana Pošćić, ana.poscic@uniri.hr
- Dr. Ana Ostroški Anić, aostrosk@ihjj.hr
- Dr. Ivana Edmonds, ivana.edmonds@pravri.uniri.hr
- Martina Tičić, mticic@pravri.uniri.hr
- Petra Švob, petra.svob.ri@gmail.com
Project Description
Although the emergence of new tools and models based on generative artificial intelligence has facilitated access to information, assessing the credibility of the retrieved information in the digital environment is a formidable task. Despite the growing application of these tools across domains and fields, their application in law and most notably in regard to legal terminology has yet to be systematically and empirically studied. In contrast to other domains, law directly affects all citizens, whereas legal terms denoting legal norms may result in different legal effects and outcomes. Observed in this light, using applicable authoritative legal terms provides legal information with required credibility, thus enabling citizens to realise their rights or fulfil their obligations. In view of the complexity of both legal information and legal terminology subject to dynamic changes in the digital environment, credibility assessment constitutes the key pre-condition for an efficient application of tools and models based on generative artificial intelligence on legal terms, legal concepts and legal texts. Intertwining and innovating upon state-of-the-art principles and methods from the fields of corpus-based applied terminology and newly emerged legal information science the project lays the groundwork for sustainable deployment of tools and models based on generative artificial intelligence on legal terminology and management of risks of deploying these tools to legal terminology in the digital age.
Project goals:
- Developing methods to improve the application of GenAI tools in legal terminology management
- Developing guidelines for risk management in regard to GenAI and legal terminology
- Developing AI and terminology literacy in the context of law
Expected results:
- papers
- new courses
- applied research
- compilation of corpora and terminological databases
- digital course materials
Key words:
- AI, terminology, legal terms, legal information
Project Results