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SANNIER Nicolas

University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SVV

ORCID
0000-0002-4449-5792
Main Referenced Co-authors
CECI, Marcello  (12)
ABUALHAIJA, Sallam  (10)
BIANCULLI, Domenico  (10)
SABETZADEH, Mehrdad  (10)
BRIAND, Lionel  (9)
Main Referenced Keywords
Regulatory Compliance (4); FinTech (3); Natural Language Processing (NLP) (3); Conceptual Modeling (2); General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (2);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Software Verification and Validation Lab (SVV Lab) (11)
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > SVV - Software Verification and Validation (9)
NCER-FT - FinTech National Centre of Excellence in Research (7)
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (1)
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > TruX - Trustworthy Software Engineering (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Computer science (22)
Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others (1)

Publications (total 22)

The most downloaded
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SLEIMI, A., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., & Dann, J. (2018). Automated Extraction of Semantic Legal Metadata Using Natural Language Processing. In the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Banff, Alberta, 20-24 August 2018 (pp. 124-135). https://hdl.handle.net/10993/36228

The most cited

73 citations (Scopus®)

SLEIMI, A., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., & Dann, J. (2018). Automated Extraction of Semantic Legal Metadata Using Natural Language Processing. In the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Banff, Alberta, 20-24 August 2018 (pp. 124-135). https://hdl.handle.net/10993/36228

SICLARI, M.* , LANNIER, S.* , VOORDECKERS, O., TOSZA, S., ABUALHAIJA, S., CECI, M., SANNIER, N., & BIANCULLI, D. (November 2025). Beyond silos: Bridging the gap between law and software engineering – challenges, successes, and lesson drawing. Internet Policy Review, 14 (4). doi:10.14763/2025.4.2042
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* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

CECI, M., SANNIER, N., ABUALHAIJA, S., BIANCULLI, D., & HALLING, M. (2025). When Data Stands Before the Law: an Experience Report on Representing Financial Rules in SPARQL. In RuleML+RR’25: Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, September 22–24, 2025, Istanbul, Turkiye (pp. 66:1-66:15). Aachen, Netherlands: CEUR.
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Amaral Cejas, O., ABUALHAIJA, S., SANNIER, N., CECI, M., & BIANCULLI, D. (2025). GDPR Compliance in Privacy Policies of Mobile Apps: An Overview of the State-of-Practice. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering 2025 conference (pp. 320-331). IEEE. doi:10.1109/RE63999.2025.00038
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ALECCI, M., SANNIER, N., CECI, M., ABUALHAIJA, S., SAMHI, J., BIANCULLI, D., BISSYANDE, T. F. D. A., & KLEIN, J. (2025). Toward LLM-Driven GDPR Compliance Checking for Android Apps. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE Companion '25) (pp. 606-610). ACM - Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3696630.3728508
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ABUALHAIJA, S., CECI, M., SANNIER, N., BIANCULLI, D., LANNIER, S., SICLARI, M., VOORDECKERS, O., & TOSZA, S. (2025). LLM-assisted Extraction of Regulatory Requirements: A Case Study on the GDPR. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'25). IEEE. doi:10.1109/RE63999.2025.00023
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CECI, M., SANNIER, N., ABUALHAIJA, S., SHIN, D., BIANCULLI, D., & HALLING, M. (2024). Toward Automated Compliance Checking of Fund Activities Using Runtime Verification Techniques. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms (FinanSE 2024), co-located with ICSE 2024 (pp. 19-20). ACM. doi:10.1145/3643665.3648045
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ABUALHAIJA, S., CECI, M., SANNIER, N., BIANCULLI, D., ZETZSCHE, D. A., & BODELLINI, M. (2024). Toward Automated Change Impact Analysis of Financial Regulations. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms (FinanSE 2024), co-located with ICSE 2024 (pp. 31-32). Lisbon, Portugal: ACM. doi:10.1145/3643665.3648046
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ABUALHAIJA, S., CECI, M., SANNIER, N., BIANCULLI, D., Briand, L., ZETZSCHE, D. A., & BODELLINI, M. (2024). AI-enabled Regulatory Change Analysis of Legal Requirements. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'24) (pp. 5-17). IEEE. doi:10.1109/RE59067.2024.00012
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AMARAL CEJAS, O., SANNIER, N., ABUALHAIJA, S., CECI, M., & BIANCULLI, D. (2024). GDPR-Relevant Privacy Concerns in Mobile Apps Research: A Systematic Literature Review. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/62753.

SANNIER, N., CECI, M., ABUALHAIJA, S., BIANCULLI, D., & HALLING, M. (2024). A Model Toward Formalizing and Monitoring Compliance of Investment Funds Activities. In 2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) (pp. 272-280). IEEE. doi:10.1109/REW61692.2024.00042
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SLEIMI, A., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., CECI, M., & Dann, J. (24 March 2021). An Automated Framework for the Extraction of Semantic Legal Metadata from Legal Texts. Empirical Software Engineering, 26 (3), 43. doi:10.1007/s10664-020-09933-5
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SLEIMI, A., CECI, M., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., & Dann, J. (2019). A Query System for Extracting Requirements-related Information from Legal Texts. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'19), pp. 319-329. United States: IEEE. doi:10.1109/RE.2019.00041
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SLEIMI, A., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., & Dann, J. (2018). Automated Extraction of Semantic Legal Metadata Using Natural Language Processing. In the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Banff, Alberta, 20-24 August 2018 (pp. 124-135).
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SOLTANA, G., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., & BRIAND, L. (2018). Model-Based Simulation of Legal Policies: Framework, Tool Support, and Validation. Software and Systems Modeling, 17 (3), 851-883. doi:10.1007/s10270-016-0542-0
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SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., & BRIAND, L. (2017). From RELAW Research to Practice: Reflections on an Ongoing Technology Transfer Project. In the IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 4-8 September 2017 (pp. 204-208).
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SANNIER, N., ADEDJOUMA, M., SABETZADEH, M., BRIAND, L., Dann, J., Hisette, M., & Thill, P. (2017). Legal Markup Generation in the Large: An Experience Report. In the 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'17), Lisbon, 4-8 September 2017 (pp. 302-311). doi:10.1109/RE.2017.10
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Ben Nasr, S., Bécan, G., Acher, M., Ferreira Filho, J. B., SANNIER, N., Baudry, B., & Davril, J.-M. (February 2017). Automated extraction of product comparison matrices from informal product descriptions. Journal of Systems and Software, 124, 82-103. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.11.018
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SANNIER, N., Adedjouma, M., SABETZADEH, M., & BRIAND, L. (2017). An Automated Framework for Detection and Resolution of Cross References in Legal Texts. Requirements Engineering, 22 (2), 215-237. doi:10.1007/s00766-015-0241-3
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SANNIER, N., Adedjouma, M., SABETZADEH, M., & BRIAND, L. (2016). Automated Classification of Legal Cross References Based on Semantic Intent. In 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'16). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_8
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Ben Nasr, S., Becan, G., Acher, M., Ferreira Filho, J. B., Baudry, B., SANNIER, N., & Davril, J.-M. (2015). MatrixMiner: A Red Pill to Architect Informal Product Descriptions in the Matrix. In 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015), Bergamo, Italy, August 30 - September 4, 2015 (pp. 982-985). doi:10.1145/2786805.2803180
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BARTOLINI, C., GHEORGHE, G., GIURGIU, A., SABETZADEH, M., & SANNIER, N. (11 March 2015). Assessing IT Security Standards Against the Upcoming GDPR for Cloud Systems [Poster presentation]. Grande Region Security and Reliability Day 2015, Trier, Germany.

SOLTANA, G., SANNIER, N., SABETZADEH, M., & BRIAND, L. (2015). A Model-Based Framework for Probabilistic Simulation of Legal Policies. In 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS'15) (pp. 70-79). IEEE. doi:10.1109/MODELS.2015.7338237
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