The area Language and Law of the European Academy of Bolzano focuses on research about linguistics and legal practice, involving not only the complex relationship between language and law, but also the legal equality of the German and Italian languages in South Tyrol. Computerized linguistic support is indispensable to manage the large amounts of data which this legislation represents. Bistro offers a set of search functions. These allow to search a term in the Bistro terminological database, to search in a legal corpus of Italian, German and Ladin texts and to search for legal texts in the Internet.

Outline

Introduction
-General overview

Description of the system's modules

-Term search
The user may search for terms, term-families, glossaries or for the terms
belonging to a specific subject area.

-Corpus search
Terms may be searched in the CATEX-corpus, the Italian-German corpus about
Italian legislation.

-Internet Search
The Internet Search provides an easy access to specialized and
non-specialized sites and search engines in the Internet.

-Text annotation
The user may insert a URL or a text and have his or her text linked to the termbank.

-Term Extraction
The user may submit a text (via its URL or its content) and Bistro extracts a list of term candidates from that text.