Institute of Legal Infomation
Theory and Techniques

Italian National
Research Council
Institute of Law and Technology
Universitàt Autonoma de Barcelona
 
     
     
 

LOAIT Workshop

Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

June 4th, 2007, Stanford University Palo Alto, CA USA

held in conjunction with ICAIL-07

Paper submission (extended deadline): April 23rd, 2007

Workshop Program
Location: Stanford Law School (signs at the registration desk)

Monday, 4 June 2007
   
9:30 Registration
   
Session 1 Legal Knowledge Modelling
10:00 Pamela Gray (Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia)
The Ontology of Legal Possibilities and Legal Potentialities
10:30

John McClure (Legal RDF, US)
The Legal-RDF Ontology. A Generic Model for Legal Documents

   
11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:30

Mark Musen (Invited speaker)
(Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University Medical Center, Protégé project leader)
The craze over biomedical ontologies: What happens when professionals take ontology building into their own hands.

12:30

Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Marcello Di Bello, Alexander Boer
(Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam)
The LKIF Core Ontology of Basic Legal Concepts

   
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
   
Session 2

Legal Ontologies Applications

14:30 Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia (Digital Video Understanding Group, UAB)
Marius Monton, Jordi Carrabina, Carlos Montero, Javier Serrano
(Laboratory for HW/SW Prototypes and Solutions (CEPHIS) UAB)
Mercedes Blázquez, Richard Benjamins, Emma Teodoro, Pompeu Casanovas
(Institute of Law and Technology, Law Dpt., UAB)
Marta Poblet
(ICREA Researcher at the Institute of Law and Technology, Law Dpt., UAB)
Developing ontologies for legal multimedia applications
15:00

Enrico Francesconi, Pierluigi Spinosa, Daniela Tiscornia (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR), Italy)
A linguistic-ontological support for multilingual legislative drafting:
the DALOS Project

15:30 Alessandro Lenci (Dipartimento di Linguistica – Università di Pisa, Italy),
Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli, Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR, Italy)
NLP-based ontology learning from legal texts. A case study
   
16.00 Tea Break
   
Session 3

Multilingualism and Information Retrieval

16:30 Doris Liebwald (Vienna Center for Computers and Law, Austria)
Semantic Spaces and Multilingualism in the Law: The Challenge of Legal Knowledge Management
17:00 Erich Schweighofer, Anton Geist (Centre for Computers and Law, Section for International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Austria)
Legal Query Expansion using Ontologies and Relevance Feedback
   
17:30 Final discussion and conclusions