  We are developing a knowledge base over Chinese judicial decision documents
to facilitate landscape analyses of Chinese Criminal Cases. We view judicial
decision documents as a mixed-granularity semi-structured text where different
levels of the text carry different semantic constructs and entailments. We use
a combination of context-sensitive grammar, dependency parsing and discourse
analysis to extract a formal and interpretable representation of these
documents. Our knowledge base is developed by constructing associations between
different elements of these documents. The interpretability is contributed in
part by our formal representation of the Chinese criminal laws, also as
semi-structured documents. The landscape analyses utilize these two
representations and enable a law researcher to ask legal pattern analysis
queries.
