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Approaches to Legal Ontologies

Theories, Domains, Methodologies

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Giovanni Sartor

    1. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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  2. Pompeu Casanovas

    1. Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Mariangela Biasiotti

    1. Ittig- CNR, Firenze, Italy

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  4. Meritxell Fernández-Barrera

    1. Facultat de Dret, Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Barcelona - Bellaterra, Spain

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  • Goes beyond the presentation of particular results in developing legal ontologies
  • Unique gathering of leading experts in the field
  • Provides a unique theoretical reflection on legal ontology engineering

Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Theory and Methodology in Legal Ontology Engineering: Experiences and Future Directions

    • Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Maria Angela Biasiotti, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Legal Theory Perspective: Doctrinal Conceptual Systems vs. Computational Ontologies

    • Meritxell Fernández-Barrera, Giovanni Sartor
    Pages 15-47

  4. Empirically Grounded Developments of Legal Ontologies: A Socio-Legal Perspective

    • Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas, Joan-Josep Vallbé
    Pages 49-67

  5. A Cognitive Science Perspective on Legal Ontologies

    • Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra
    Pages 69-81

  6. Social Ontology and Documentality

    • Maurizio Ferraris
    Pages 83-97

  7. The Case-Based Reasoning Approach: Ontologies for Analogical Legal Argument

    • Kevin D. Ashley
    Pages 99-115

  8. A Complex-System Approach: Legal Knowledge, Ontology, Information and Networks

    • Pierre Mazzega, Danièle Bourcier, Paul Bourgine, Nadia Nadah, Romain Boulet
    Pages 117-132

  9. The Multi-Layered Legal Information Perspective

    • Guido Boella, PierCarlo Rossi
    Pages 133-141

  10. Legal Ontologies: The Linguistic Perspective

    • Maria Angela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia
    Pages 143-166

  11. A Legal Document Ontology: The Missing Layer in Legal Document Modelling

    • Monica Palmirani, Luca Cervone, Fabio Vitali
    Pages 167-178

  12. From Thesaurus Towards Ontologies in Large Legal Databases

    • Ángel Sancho Ferrer, Carlos Fernández Hernández, José Manuel Mateo Rivero
    Pages 179-200

  13. The Computational Ontology Perspective: Design Patterns for Web Ontologies

    • Aldo Gangemi, Valentina Presutti, Eva Blomqvist
    Pages 201-217

  14. A Learning Approach for Knowledge Acquisition in the Legal Domain

    • Enrico Francesconi
    Pages 219-233

  15. Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective

    • Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera
    Pages 235-258

  16. Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval

    • Jorge González-Conejero
    Pages 259-271

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 273-279
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The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and retrieval of legal information in the Semantic Web framework. It will thus interest researchers in the domains of the SW, legal informatics, Artificial Intelligence and law, legal theory and legal philosophy, as well as developers of e-government applications based on the intelligent management of legal or public information to provide both back-office and front-office support.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

  • Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Pompeu Casanovas

  • Ittig- CNR, Firenze, Italy

    Mariangela Biasiotti

  • Facultat de Dret, Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Barcelona - Bellaterra, Spain

    Meritxell Fernández-Barrera

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