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292terminology such as translators and technical writers to browse the various aspects oflexical units. For the moment, JuriDiCo contains the most relevant specialized verbs usedin the highest court decisions of Portugal and Canada.This sub-chapter is organized as follows. Section 5.4.1 describes the macrostructureof JuriDiCo or the structure of the resource as a whole. Section 5.4.2 describes themicrostructure or the internal structure of the entries. Finally, section 5.4.3 discusses futurework. Both the macrostructure and the microstructure of JuriDiCo were designed andimplemented in collaboration with the computational linguist, Benoît Robichaud, whoworks in the OLST.5.4.1. The macrostructureThe resource was designed to describe the linguistic as well as the extralinguisticinformation related to specialized verbs that occur in legal texts and to provide theirequivalents. This information serves a decoding and an encoding function, i.e. it should behelpful for the understanding of legal terminology as well as for the translation andproduction of legal texts. Therefore, as in FrameNet (2012), this resource should allowusers to search the information they need by introducing the knowledge they already haveabout a concept (search by frames) or by introducing a term so as to learn about itscharacteristics (search by terms).In order to serve these objectives, JuriDiCo can be consulted in three ways. The firstoption is to browse alphabetically ordered lists of terms (Figure 45). The user may click onthe terms to directly access their description. Section 5.4.2 describes the microstructure ofthe term entries.