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Title Approaches to legal ontologies : theories, domains, methodologies / edited by Giovanni Sartor [and others]
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
Series Law, Governance and Technology Series ; 1
Law, governance and technology series ; 1.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Theory and Methodology in Legal Ontology Engineering: Experiences and Future Directions / Meritxell Fernandez-Barrera -- 2. Legal Theory Perspective: Doctrinal Conceptual Systems vs. Computational Ontologies / Giovanni Sartor -- 3. Empirically Grounded Developments of Legal Ontologies: A Socio-Legal Perspective / Joan-Josep Vallbe -- 4. Cognitive Science Perspective on Legal Ontologies / Rinke Hoekstra -- 5. Social Ontology and Documentality / Maurizio Ferraris -- 6. Case-Based Reasoning Approach: Ontologies for Analogical Legal Argument / Kevin D. Ashley -- 7. Complex-System Approach: Legal Knowledge, Ontology, Information and Networks / Romain Boulet -- 8. Multi-Layered Legal Information Perspective / Pier Carlo Rossi -- 9. Legal Ontologies: The Linguistic Perspective / Daniela Tiscornia -- 10. Legal Document Ontology: The Missing Layer in Legal Document Modelling / Fabio Vitali -- 11. From Thesaurus Towards Ontologies in Large Legal Databases / Jose Manuel Mateo Rivero -- 12. Computational Ontology Perspective: Design Patterns for Web Ontologies / Eva Blomqvist -- 13. Learning Approach for Knowledge Acquisition in the Legal Domain / Enrico Francesconi -- 14. Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective / Meritxell Fernandez-Barrera -- 15. Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval / Jorge Gonzalez-Conejero
Summary 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-offi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Law -- Data processing
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
LAW -- Law Office Management.
Sciences sociales.
Droit.
Sciences humaines.
Law -- Data processing
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Form Electronic book
Author Sartor, Giovanni.
ISBN 9789400701205
9400701209
9400701195
9789400701199