Institute of Legal Infomation Theory and Techniques

Italian National Research Council

Institute of Law and Technology

Universitàt Autonoma de Barcelona

Leibniz Center for Law

University of Amsterdam

Institute of Computational Linguistic

Italian National Research Council
 
     
 

LOAIT '09

3rd Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
joint with
2nd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts
June 8th, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

held in conjunction with ICAIL-09

Workshop Program
Monday, 8 June 2009
   
8:45 Registration
   
9:30 Presentation of LOAIT'09 and Semantic Processing of Legal Texts WS
Invited Speech  
9:40 Joost Breuker
Dreams and awakenings about legal ontologies
Session 1 Legal Knowledge Modelling and Applications
10:40 András Förhécz and György Strausz
Legal Assessment Using Conjunctive Queries
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30

Gianmaria Ajani, Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Marco Martin, Alessandro Mazzei, Daniele P. Radicioni and Piercarlo Rossi
Legal Taxonomy Syllabus version 2.0

11:50

Marta Poblet, Nuria Casellas, Sergi Torralba and Pompeu Casanovas
Modeling Expert Knowledge in the Mediation Domain: A Middle-out Approach to Design ODR Ontologies

12:10 Doris Liebwald
Knowledge Representation and Modelling Legal Norms: The EU Services Directive
Session 2 Legal Text Processing and Semantic Annotation
12:20

Lorenzo Bacci, Pierluigi Spinosa, Carlo Marchetti and Roberto Battistoni
Automatic mark-up of legislative documents and its application to parallel text generation

12:40 Alexander Boer and Tom Van Engers
AGILE: From Source of Law to Business Process Specification
12:50 Discussion
   
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
   
Invited Speech  
14:30 Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
Exploiting linguistic annotations in Search
Session 3

Text-based Ontology Learning

15:30 Giulia Venturi, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Eva Maria Vecchi, Tommaso Agnoloni, Maria Teresa Sagri and Daniela Tiscornia
Towards a FrameNet Resource for the Legal Domain
15:50 Erich Schweighofer
Learning and Verification of Legal Ontologies by Means of Conceptual Analysis
16:00

Coffee Break

16:30 Wim Peters
Text-based Legal Ontology Enrichment
Session 4 Multilingualism and Semantics
16:50 Ginevra Peruginelli and Enrico Francesconi
Multilingual access modalities to legal resources based on semantic disambiguation
17.10 Mariangela Biasiotti and Meritxell Fernández-Barrera
Enriching thesauri with ontological information: Eurovoc thesaurus and DALOS domain ontology of consumer law
17:20 Final discussion and conclusions