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1Contributions of the Thesaurus of the argentinian legal IT system to legal terminologyA1
2 The application of information technology to the field of law is referred to as "legal IT".A1
3 Documentary legal IT is based on legal databases. A1
4 These databases contain basically three types of documents, corresponding to the three main sources of law: jurisprudence, legislation and the doctrine of authors. A1
5 There are public and private databases.A1
6 The only public database in our country is the SISTEMA ARGENTINO DE INFORMATICA JURIDICA ("Argentinian Legal IT System"), which depends on the national Justice Ministry.A1
7 At present this database has over 510.000 documents.A1
8 In this brief study we shall look in particular at a linguistic tool available to users of the system which enables them to recover information by topics: the Legal ThesaurusA1