Célestine Lecat

Célestine LecatDC3

University of Bologna · Law as Code: searchable and enforceable AI and data regulations
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Bio

Célestine Lecat is a PhD candidate at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Monica Palmirani. As part of the HARNESS network, her research investigates the machine-readable encoding of AI and data norms.

Célestine holds a master's degree in Scientific, Economic and Editorial Translation from Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3). She has previously worked as a trilingual linguist and quality assurance specialist for the World Health Organization, supporting the implementation of the Akoma Ntoso standard for Governing Bodies documents.

Research interests

AI Governance Regulatory Interoperability Semantic Modeling Ontology Engineering

Publications

  1. Formalizing EU Normative Legislation by leveraging FrameNet and frame semantics
    Lecat, C. — Doctoral Consortium, JURIX 2025, Turin, December 2025. PDF

Deliverables

  1. D1.4 Legal Ontologies - v1
    WP1 · Lead: TCD — June 2026.
  2. D2.2 Survey of Compliance Methods and Tools
    WP2 · Lead: UPM — March 2026. DOI