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ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Constructing a Semantic Network for Legal Content
The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (DTCA) is one of many organizations that deal with a multitude of electronic legal data, from various sources and in different formats. In...
Radboud Winkels, Alexander Boer, Emile de Maat, To...
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Computational Linguistic Support for Legal Ontology Construction
The potential of knowledge-based technological support for work in the legal domain has become widely recognized in recent time. This paper argues for an approach that is meant to...
Stephan Walter, Manfred Pinkal
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A question-answering system for Portuguese juridical documents
We present a Question-Answering (QA) system for Portuguese juridical documents. The QA system was applied to the complete set of decisions from several Portuguese juridical instit...
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dialogues about the burden of proof
This paper analyses the phenomenon of a shift of the burden of proof in legal persuasion dialogues. Some sample dialogues are analysed of types of situations where such a shift ma...
Henry Prakken, Chris Reed, Douglas Walton
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A study of accrual of arguments, with applications to evidential reasoning
d on Dung’s [4] abstract argumentation system • arguments: trees of chained defeasible inferences • aim: determine the status of a query given a belief base • incorporation...
Henry Prakken
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Computational Law
Computational law is an approach to automated legal reasoning focusing on semantically rich laws, regulations, contract terms, and business rules in the context of electronicallym...
Nathaniel Love, Michael R. Genesereth
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A Note on Interpretations for Federated Languages and the Use of Disquotation
Quotation and subsequent disquotation of propositional content sentences has been proposed for, and has some attractive features for, representing content sentences embedded in co...
Steven Orla Kimbrough
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Legal Text Summarisation: Experiments with Summary Structuring
We describe a set of experiments using machine learning techniques for the task of extractive summarisation. The research is part of a summarisation project for which we use a cor...
Ben Hachey, Claire Grover
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Temporalised Normative Positions in Defeasible Logic
We propose a computationally oriented non-monotonic multi-modal logic arising from the combination of temporalised agency and temporalised normative positions. We argue about the ...
Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sarto...
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A legal drafting environment based on formal and semantic XML standards
Carlo Biagioli, Enrico Francesconi, Pier-Luigi Spi...