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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483228203321

Titolo

Law and the semantic web : legal ontologies, methodologies, legal information retrieval, and applications / / V. Richard Benjamins ... [et al.] (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, c2005

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 252 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, , 0302-9743 ; ; 3369

Altri autori (Persone)

BenjaminsRichard

Disciplina

340.072

Soggetti

Semantics (Law)

Legal research - Data processing

Law - Methodology

Semantic Web

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Context of the book -- pt. 2. Theoretical papers : legal ontologies and methodologies -- pt. 3. Practice papers : information retrieval and applications.

Sommario/riassunto

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, among other 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.