Big Corpora and Text Clustering: The Italian Accounting Jurisdiction Case

Currently, big corpora, coming from Open Government Data projects, in several research areas, allow quickly to available a large number of documents. In the legal field, many information are stored and therefore made it necessary to develop a specific dictionary to classify text data. The paper aims to present the workflow to visualize and classify Big Legal Corpora, identifying the main steps of a chain process. The analyzed corpus is composed of 123,989 judgments, in Italian language, published by the Court of Audit, from 2010 to 2018