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legislative-quality
definitional-defects
circulus-in-definiendo
ignotum-per-ignotum
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DefectRadar: Definitional Defects in Ukrainian Legislation
Corpus of 5,799 legal definitions extracted from 879 Ukrainian laws (out of 44,021 active legislative acts), annotated for two types of definitional defects:
- Circulus in definiendo (tautology): the definition uses the term being defined (or its morphological derivative) in the differentia specifica
- Ignotum per ignotum (unknown through unknown): the definition relies on terms that are not defined in the same law
Key Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Legislative acts scanned | 44,021 |
| Laws with definitions | 879 (2.0%) |
| Unique definitions | 5,799 |
| Circulus in definiendo | 1,880 (32.4%) |
| Cross-reference ignotum | 1,885 (32.5%) |
| Both defects | 749 (12.9%) |
| Any defect | 3,016 (52.0%) |
Error Analysis (LLM-as-Judge Validation)
Pipeline-flagged circulus cases were independently classified by a RAG-augmented GPT-4o judge:
| Classification | % |
|---|---|
| Domain terminology reuse (morphologically circular but substantively meaningful) | 84.8% |
| True defect (normatively empty) | 9.1% |
| False positive | 6.1% |
Ignotum severity stratification:
| Severity | % |
|---|---|
| Cross-reference gap (defined in another law) | 70.8% |
| Critical (undefined anywhere in corpus) | 20.8% |
| Common (well-known, no definition needed) | 8.3% |
Data Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
rada_id |
string | Verkhovna Rada law identifier |
law_title |
string | Official title of the law |
definiendum |
string | The term being defined |
genus_proximum |
string | Superordinate category (genus) |
differentia_specifica |
string | Distinguishing characteristics |
full_definiens |
string | Complete right-hand side of the definition |
is_circulus |
bool | Pipeline circulus detection result |
circulus_tier |
string | Detection tier (morphological / semantic) |
overlapping_lemmas |
list[str] | Lemmas shared between definiendum and differentia |
circulus_explanation |
string | Pipeline explanation |
has_ignotum |
bool | Whether undefined terms were found |
undefined_terms |
list[str] | Terms used but not defined in this law |
ignotum_severity |
string | Severity classification |
ignotum_explanation |
string | Pipeline explanation |
Source
Definitions extracted from the Verkhovna Rada Open Data portal (data.rada.gov.ua) using the LEX AI platform's RadaLegislationAdapter. Corpus snapshot: April 2026.
Pipeline
The DefectRadar pipeline operates in three stages:
- Definition extraction: rule-based (em-dash copula patterns) + fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa for inline definitions
- Circulus detection: Ukrainian lemmatization (pymorphy2-uk) + genus exclusion + discriminating-adjective overlap
- Ignotum detection: cross-legislative definition graph across 879 laws
Pipeline code: github.com/overthelex/secondlayer/tree/main/scripts/defectradar
Citation
@article{ovcharov2026defectradar,
title={DefectRadar: Automated Detection of Definitional Defects in Legislation via Morpho-Semantic NLP Pipeline over 24,000 Ukrainian Laws},
author={Ovcharov, Volodymyr and Kyrychenko, Ihor},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2026}
}
License
CC BY 4.0
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