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17 Jul 2012, 7:23 pm
Jiayue Zhang and colleagues of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications School of Information and Communication Engineering have published PRIS at TREC 2011 Legal Track: Discovery Based on Relevant Feedback, in The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011) Proceedings.
Here is the abstract:
In order to finish the task of TREC 2011 Legal Track, this paper puts forward an experiment method, which combines indri and relevant feedback to evaluate the probability of relevance of every… [read post]
20 Nov 2012, 4:27 pm
Dr. Giulia Andrighetto and Dr. Rosaria Conte, both of Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, CNR, have published Cognitive dynamics of norm compliance. From norm adoption to flexible automated conformity, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Here is the abstract:
‘In this paper, an integrated, cognitive view of different mechanisms, reasons and pathways to norm compliance is presented. After a short introduction, theories of norm compliance are reviewed, and found to group… [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 5:28 pm
Marc van Opijnen of the The Netherlands Council for the Judiciary (Raad Voor de Rechtspraak) has posted the full text of his paper entitled The European Legal Semantic Web: Completed Building Blocks and Future Work, given last week at Journées européennes d’informatique 2012 = European Legal e-Access Conference.
Here is the abstract:
If constructed properly the European legal semantic web will improve access to legal information, stimulate innovative applications and legal services, and… [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 3:29 pm
Not this trip, but the editor of Blawg Review will visit friends in Europe (London for sure) and maybe Paris will be on the next tour. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 10:56 am
Marcus Soanes of The City Law School, City University London, has published The Legal Questing Beast: Vocational Students’ Research Strategies, Motivations and Emotions, 44 The Law Teacher 149-168 (2010) (Issue No. 2). Here is the abstract:
In the context of the Bar Vocational Course, this project enquired how students perceive their research strategies when they interact with repositories of legal information. The research captured and analysed the students’ descriptions of these engagements… [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 8:24 pm
I’ll be presenting a paper entitled Legal Narrative in the Citizens’ Panel: Identifying Theories to Explain Storytelling in a Small Group Deliberation about Ballot Initiatives, at NCA 2012: The 98th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, to be held 15-18 November 2012, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
The paper has been accepted by the NCA Communication and Law Division.
Here is the abstract:
In this paper, three well-known scientific theories of legal narrative are… [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 6:57 pm
Philip Chung of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Professor Andrew Mowbray of University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law, and Professor Dr. Graham Greenleaf of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, have published Searching Legal Information in Multiple Asian Languages, forthcoming in Legal Information Management.
Here is the abstract:
In this article the Co-Directors of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) explain the need for an open source search… [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 11:17 pm
Several white papers from the 2012 Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice have been published as Occasional Papers by Harvard Journal of Law & Technology:
John M. Greacen and William L. Jones: Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice: Analytical Framework
Stephanie Kimbro: Using Technology to Unbundle in the Legal Services Community
Marc Lauritsen: A Decision Space for Legal Service Delivery
Susan Ledray: Virtual Services Whitepaper
Richard Zorza:… [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 10:55 am
Applications are invited to the Summer School on Law and Logic 2012, to be held 16-20 July 2012, in Florence, Italy.
Here is a description of the school:
The Summer School on Law and Logic is the first course ever to provide a comprehensive introduction to the wide variety of uses of logic in the law. Our aim at this Summer School is to provide law students, graduate law students, and legal professionals with a knowledge of the methods of formal logic and the ability to apply those methods to the… [read post]
21 May 2012, 8:48 am
Professor Dr. Christina L. Boyd of the State University of New York (SUNY) – Department of Political Science, Professor David A. Hoffman of the Temple University School of Law and the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, and colleagues, have posted Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complaints. Here is the abstract:
This project empirically explores civil litigation from its inception by examining the content of civil complaints. We utilize… [read post]
24 May 2012, 11:34 am
Waldo Jaquith of The State Decoded has posted Answering Legal Questions with Google, at The State Decoded.
In this post, Mr. Jaquith describes the search engine traffic of Virginia Decoded, the first implementation of The State Decoded open legislative data platform.
Key findings include:
the distribution of search queries is “very flat,” with more than 95% of queries having been “used just 1 time”
“Many of these search terms are extremely specific”
Problem… [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 11:25 am
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 25 February 2011, and full paper submission deadline of 4 March 2011 — has been issued for RuleML 2011: The 5th International Symposium on Rules, to be held 19-21 July 2011, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with IJCAI-11: The 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, being held 16-22 July 2011 in Barcelona.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
Rules and Automated… [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 12:15 pm
Several legal informatics or legal communication papers or presentations have been given at ILEC 5: The 2012 International Legal Ethics Conference, held 12-14 July 2012 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The Twitter hashtags for the conference were:
#ilec2012
#ilec5
#ilecv
Here are archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format:
Archived Tweets with hashtag #ILEC2012
Archived Tweets with hashtag #ilec5
Archived Tweets with hashtag #ilecv
Click here for the conference program.
Topics… [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 9:52 am
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 25 June 2012 — has been issued for the Doctoral Consortium at RuleML 2012 @ ECAI: The 6th International Symposium on Rules, to be held 27 August 2012, in Montpellier, France.
The consortium is being held in conjunction with ECAI 2012: The 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Here is a description of the Doctoral Consortium and of the paper requirements:
The RuleML 2012 Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the… [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 2:55 pm
With thanks to John Bolch at Family Lore. [read post]
22 May 2010, 4:29 pm
Professor John Zeleznikow of Victoria University has published The Need to Incorporate Justice into Negotiation Support Systems, in Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2009 International Workshops, Poznan, Poland, April 27-29, 2009, Revised Papers (2009).
The paper was originally presented at LIT 2009: The 2nd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 28 April 2009 in Poznan, Poland.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
Over the past twenty five years there has been… [read post]
3 May 2010, 1:28 pm
Elizabeth Marley, of The U.K. House of Commons Library, Indexing and Data Management Section, has published Metadata at the UK Parliament: Use of Controlled Vocabularies and Indexing, 10 Legal Information Management 1-3 (no. 1) (2010). Here is the abstract:
Elizabeth Marley describes the addition of subject and other indexing metadata at the UK Parliament, contributing to the internal databases and to services to the public on the Parliamentary website, and the operation of the thesauri and… [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 9:21 am
That's right, I blame Drew's cancer for too many tweets! Oh, and one more thing, I blame Drew's cancer for this: WTF? Are we behind the Great Firewall of China, or in Toronto for meshmarketing? [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 6:41 am
RT @infobunny Why does no one call me pumpkin? Blawg Review #236, hosted by Eric Turkewitz, is a real treat. Note to @Geeklawyer and friends, who celebrated Halloween at the #brightonpissup4, "pissed" also means "angry" to a Yank. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 11:21 am
The sun hasn't set on Blawg Review, but we've been traveling these past few months, and not just to law conferences. I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ~ Socrates Blawg Review will be back soon; the peripatetic editor, maybe not. [read post]