La sottodeterminazione nei testi giuridici: verso un'analisi linguistico-computazionale

This contribution introduces a theoretical-methodological paradigm framed in an inter- disciplinary research project at the intersection among law, linguistics and natural language processing, focused on the legislative and regulatory production of Valle D’Aosta Region, as a limited though autonomous body of rules. Main target of the project is the notion of underdetermination, that is the property of jurid- ical utterances to allow language to convey different, alternative interpretations. The exper- imental methods employed for the field survey are illustrated, along with the applications of digital humanities used to devise a descriptive model of phenomenology and linguistic realities of underdetermination. The final aim of the project is to describe and to track underdetermination in the many different forms it takes in the wide range of the different text typologies encompassed in the juridical field.