Law and the Semantic Web : Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications /
edited by V. Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas, Joost Breuker, Aldo Gangemi.
- xii, 249 páginas Also available online. recurso en línea.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3369 0302-9743 ; .
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Context of the Book -- Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction -- Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law -- Statistical Study of Judicial Practices -- Theoretical Papers: Legal Ontologies and Methodologies -- Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management -- Types and Roles of Legal Ontologies -- CAUSATI O NT : Modeling Causation in AI&Law -- A Constructive Framework for Legal Ontologies -- On the Ontological Status of Norms -- Building Legal Ontologies with METHONTOLOGY and WebODE -- Institutional Pragmatics and Legal Ontology Limits of the Descriptive Approach of Texts -- Practice Papers: Information Retrieval and Applications -- Using NLP Techniques to Identify Legal Ontology Components: Concepts and Relations -- A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System -- Iuriservice: An Intelligent Frequently Asked Questions System to Assist Newly Appointed Judges -- NetCase: An Intelligent System to Assist Legal Services Providers in Transnational Legal Networks -- No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection.
The revised papers presented in this book are drawn from two meetings devoted to the Semantic Web and the legal domain: The International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Web-Based Legal Information Management held in Edinburgh, UK in June 2003, and the International Seminar on Law and the Semantic Web, held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2003. This book presents 15 thoroughly refereed revised papers on topics relevant for law and the Semantic Web. The book is structured into three parts. Part I sets the scene by introducing the relevant concepts, describing some of the users (legal professionals), and putting into historical context how legal professionals think about the use and application of law. Part II presents theoretical aspects related to the construction of legal ontologies, both from a legal and a methodological point of view. Part III collects descriptions of various applications of Semantic Web technology to the legal domain.