Title: Systematically Integration Legal Informatics with Linguistics as a Framework for Achieving Semantic Interoperability
Authors: Khujakulov Sunnatullo
Volume: 9
Issue: 11
Pages: 57-68
Publication Date: 2025/11/28
Abstract:
This article presents a systematic approach to integrating legal informatics with linguistics as a comprehensive framework for achieving semantic interoperability across diverse legal systems and languages. The study emphasizes the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration to address the persistent challenges of ambiguity, inconsistency, and conceptual mismatch in legal terminology and translation. Legal informatics contributes technological tools such as ontologies, metadata standards, and natural language processing (NLP) systems that enable the structured organization and retrieval of legal information. Linguistics, in turn, provides the theoretical foundation for analyzing meaning, context, and conceptual relations within legal discourse. By systematically combining these fields, the proposed framework facilitates the alignment of legal concepts across languages and jurisdictions, ensuring that information exchanged between systems retains its intended meaning. The article explores how ontology-based modeling and corpus-driven linguistic analysis can be applied to detect equivalence, synonymy, and contextual variation among legal terms. It further demonstrates the potential of this integrated model to enhance legal translation, comparative legal studies, and the development of multilingual legal databases. The findings highlight that achieving semantic interoperability requires not only technological sophistication but also a deep understanding of linguistic and cultural nuances embedded in law. Ultimately, this research argues that systematic integration of legal informatics and linguistics fosters transparency, accessibility, and cross-border collaboration in the digital legal environment, contributing to the creation of more coherent, interoperable, and inclusive global legal communication systems.