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Law and the Semantic Web

Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. V. Richard Benjamins

    1. iSOCO, Spain

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  2. Pompeu Casanovas

    1. Institute of Law and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Joost Breuker

    1. Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam,  

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  4. Aldo Gangemi

    1. Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3369)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Context of the Book

    1. Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction

      • V. Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas, Joost Breuker, Aldo Gangemi
      Pages 1-17

    2. Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law

      • Josep Aguiló-Regla
      Pages 18-24

    3. Statistical Study of Judicial Practices

      • Ramón Álvarez, Mercedes Ayuso, Mónica Bécue
      Pages 25-35

  3. Theoretical Papers: Legal Ontologies and Methodologies

    1. Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management

      • Joost Breuker, André Valente, Radboud Winkels
      Pages 36-64

    2. Types and Roles of Legal Ontologies

      • Andre Valente
      Pages 65-76

    3. CAUSATI ONT: Modeling Causation in AI&Law

      • Jos Lehmann, Joost Breuker, Bob Brouwer
      Pages 77-96

    4. A Constructive Framework for Legal Ontologies

      • Aldo Gangemi, Maria-Teresa Sagri, Daniela Tiscornia
      Pages 97-124

    5. On the Ontological Status of Norms

      • Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Rossana Damiano
      Pages 125-141

    6. Building Legal Ontologies with METHONTOLOGY and WebODE

      • Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Angel López-Cima
      Pages 142-157

    7. Institutional Pragmatics and Legal Ontology Limits of the Descriptive Approach of Texts

      • Danièle Bourcier
      Pages 158-168

  4. Practice Papers: Information Retrieval and Applications

    1. Using NLP Techniques to Identify Legal Ontology Components: Concepts and Relations

      • Guiraude Lame
      Pages 169-184

    2. A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System

      • José Saias, Paulo Quaresma
      Pages 185-200

    3. Iuriservice: An Intelligent Frequently Asked Questions System to Assist Newly Appointed Judges

      • V. R. Benjamins, P. Casanovas, J. Contreras, J. M. Lopez Cobo, L. Lemus
      Pages 201-217

    4. NetCase: An Intelligent System to Assist Legal Services Providers in Transnational Legal Networks

      • Jesús Contreras, Marta Poblet
      Pages 218-232

    5. No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection

      • John Kingston, Burkhard Schafer, Wim Vandenberghe
      Pages 233-247

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About this book

by Roberto Cencioni At the Lisbon Summit in March 2000, European heads of state and government set a new goal for the European Union — to become the most competitive knowled- based society in the world by 2010. As part of this objective, ICT (information and communication technologies) services should become available for every citizen, and for all schools, homes and businesses. The book you have in front of you is about Semantic Web technology and law. Law is something omnipresent; all citizens — at some points in their lives — have to deal with it. In addition, law involves a large group of professionals, and is a mul- billion business world wide. Information technology is important because it that can improve citizens’ interaction with law, as well as improve legal professionals’ work environment. Legal professionals dedicate a significant amount of their time to finding, reading, analyzing and synthesizing information in order to take decisions, and prepare advice and trials, amongother tasks. As part of the “Semantic-Based Knowledge and Content Systems” Strategic Objective, the European Commission is funding projects to construct technology to make the Semantic Web vision come true. 1 The articles in this book are related to two current foci of the Strategic Objective : • Knowledge acquisition and modelling, capturing knowledge from raw information and multimedia content in webs and other distributed repositories to turn poorly structured information into machi- processable knowledge.

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"This book is about the use of Semantic Web technologies for Legal Knowledge Management … . I think the book is published timely to meet the increasing interest in the context of eGovernment. … The contributions show a good mix of contributions from different European countries … . the book contains a number of interesting contributions … . If you are looking for an overview of the work going on in the domain of legal ontologies, this book is a good choice … ." (Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 14, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • iSOCO, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

  • Institute of Law and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    Pompeu Casanovas

  • Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam,  

    Joost Breuker

  • Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy

    Aldo Gangemi

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