Approaches to Legal Ontologies

by Sartor, Giovanni; Casanovas, Pompeu; Biasiotti, Maria Angela; Fernandez-Barrera, Meritxell

• ISBN13: 9789400701199
• ISBN10: 9400701195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

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-office and front-office support.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theory and Methodology in Legal Ontology Engineering: Experiences and Future Directions	p. 1
The Legal Theory Perspective: Doctrinal Conceptual Systems vs. Computational Ontologies	p. 15
Empitically Grounded Developments of Legal Ontologies: A Socio-Legal Perspective	p. 49
A Cognitive Science Perspective on Legal Ontologies	p. 69
Social Ontology and Documentality	p. 83
The Case-Based Reasoning Approach: Ontologies for Analogical Legal Argument	p. 99
A Complex-System Approach: Legal Knowledge, Ontology, Information and Networks	p. 117
The Multi-Layered Legal Information Perspective	p. 133
Legal Ontologies: The Linguistic Perspective	p. 143
A Legal Document Ontology: The Missing Layer in Legal Document Modelling	p. 167
From Thesaurus Towards Ontologies in Large Legal Databases	p. 179
The Computational Ontology Perspective: Design Patterns for Web Ontologies	p. 201
A Learning Approach for Knowledge Acquisition in the Legal Domain	p. 219
Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective	p. 235
Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval	p. 259
Author Index	p. 273
Concepts Index	p. 277
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