: There is a growing awareness that the national judge plays a vital role in the European legal system, as is illustrated by the emergence of various initiatives for the cross-bord...
Abstract. There exist two broad approaches to information retrieval (IR) in the legal domain: those based on manual knowledge engineering (KE) and those based on natural language p...
This paper extends our previous logical analysis of presumptions and burden of proof by studying the force of a presumption once counterevidence has been offered. In the jurisprude...
In this paper we present an approach to abductive reasoning in law by examining it in the context of an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning. We present a particular scheme...
Floris Bex, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkins...
We are concerned with the automatic semantic interpretation of legal modificatory provisions. We propose a novel approach which pairs deep syntactic parsing and a fine-grained taxo...
Abstract. This paper provides a novel mechanism to check whether business processes are compliant with business rules regulating them. The key point is that compliance is a relatio...
Abstract. In the AVERs sense-making tool for crime analysis different types of information are represented in different ways. More precisely, narrative knowledge is represented in ...
Susan W. van den Braak, Herre van Oostendorp, Henr...
The two main types of law are legislation and precedents. Both types have a corresponding reasoning pattern determining legal consequences: legislation can be applied and precedent...
: Error rates in the assessment of routine claims for welfare benefits have been found to very high in Netherlands, USA and UK. This is a significant problem both in terms of quali...
Maya Wardeh, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Frans Coene...