A tool to extract references to laws within the Portuguese law. It reads files containing Portuguese legal documents (in plantext), finds references to other laws and adds links to them

The software was made in the context of a linux system and it is possibly that it won't behave as expected in windows systems

You can use any virtual environment tool for python. Here we are using Virtalenv:

• mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 dre-metatada-extractor
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Get the Portuguese law as a series of .txt files (a law document per file) and copy them over to data/text/.

Some sample data is already provided in data/sample

The program extractor.py reads from the stdin and outputs to the stdout. So to use it we read the law file into it and write it to a file.

# we are using pandoc because extractor.py does not add the html header and encoding
# only the links. By doing so, pandoc adds the missing parts
cat data/texto/[law-id].txt | python ./extractor.py | pandoc -s -f markdown -t html > /tmp/$(basename $1).html

to view the file you just open /tmp/[law-id].txt in a browser.

• Detetar documentos das nações unidas: Resolução A/RES/68/262, adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas (no Aviso n.º 114/2016)

• Melhorar deteção de id_lei para:

  • Detetar leis antigas: Decreto-Lei n.º 35717, de 24 de junho de 1946 (nao é do fomato X/Y) (no Decreto-Lei n.º 82/2016)