Legal knowledge and information systems [[electronic resource] ] : JURIX 2005 : the eighteenth annual conference / / edited by Marie-Francine Moens and Peter Spyns

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806150103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, D.C., : IOS Press; Fairfax, VA, : Distributor in the USA and Canada, c2005
• ISBN: 1-280-50515-X; 9786610505159; 1-4237-9731-0; 1-60750-152-X; 600-00-0475-3; 1-60129-132-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
• Collana: Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications ; ; v. 134
• Altri autori (Persone): MoensMarie-Francine <1957->; SpynsPeter
• Disciplina: 343.0999
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence; Law - Methodology - Automation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Proceedings of the conference held Dec. 8-10, 2005, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Preface; Contents; Theory and Practice in AI and Law: A Response to Branting; Norm Modifications in Defeasible Logic; Making Sense of Coherence: The Level Theory of Coherence; Mixing Legal and Non-Legal Norms; Regulations Expressed as Logical Models (REALM); Assumption Based Peg Unification for Crime Scenario Modelling; Dynamics of Rule Revision and Strategy Revision in Legislative Games; Automated Analysis of Reasoning and Argumentation Structures in Texts; Automatic Translation from Textual Representations of Laws to Formal Models Through UML; Some Foundational Linguistic Elements for QA Systems: An Application to E-Government ServicesA Question Answer System for Legal Information Retrieval; How Technology Can Help Reducing the Legal Burden; A Semantics-Based Visual Framework for Planning a New Bill; ; The Desocialization of the Courts, Sentencing Decision Support and Plea Bargaining; Towards Modeling Systematic Interpretation of Codified Law; Large-Scale Linguistic Ontology as a Basis for Text Categorization of Legislative Documents; Game Mechanisms & Procedural Fairness; Practical Reasoning and Proposing: Tools for e-Democracy; The Legal Concepts and the Layman's TermsValidating an Automated Evaluation Procedure for Ontology Triples in the Privacy Domain; An Ontological Approach for the Management of Rights Data Dictionaries; Using Legal Definitions to Increase the Accessibility of Legal Documents; Previous Publications by JURIX; Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: e-government applications are gaining ground among local, national, European and international institutions. However, there is a need for the integration and harmonisation of the models. For a marriage between artificial intelligence and e-government to happen, technologies that automatically extract knowledge from natural language are needed.