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16 Mar 2013, 6:11 pm
Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford Law School has launched Open Law Lab, “an initiative to design law – to make it more accessible, more usable, and more engaging.”
Dr. Hagan says that the Lab currently is a nonprofit collaborative project among law students.
The Lab’s work currently addresses:
Visualization of legal information
Improvements in dispute resolution
Legal educational technology with an emphasis on gamification
Court technology, under the rubric of Usable court… [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 4:45 pm
A call for papers, with abstract submission deadline of 21 March 2010 and paper submission deadline of 28 March 2010, has been issued for GandALF 2010: The First International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification, to be held 17-18 June 2010 in Minori, Italy.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
“Automata Theory
Automated Deduction
Logical aspects of Computational Complexity
Concurrency and Distributed computation
Decision Procedures
Deductive, Compositional, and… [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 9:40 pm
Canada’s pathbreaking vendor-neutral legal citation standard, and CanLII’s innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov’s new post, entitled Environmentally-Friendly Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
Mr. Mokanov is Deputy Director of LexUM, the publisher of CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute.
Mr. Mokanov’s post describes the origins of the neutral standard, its benefits, its… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm
Qiang Lu and Jack G. Conrad , both of Thomson Reuters, will present a paper entitled Bringing Order to Legal Documents: An Issue-based Recommendation System via Cluster Association, at KEOD 2012: The 4th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, to be held 4-7 October 2012 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Here is the abstract: The task of recommending content to professionals (such as attorneys or brokers) differs greatly from the task of recommending news to… [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 12:57 pm
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University College London Department of Computer Science has published a series of posts on legal information annotation and extraction, using GATE: The General Architecture for Text Engineering, on his blog, Language Logic Law Software.
The content of these posts was presented in Dr. Wyner’s tutorial at JURIX 2009, the slides of which are available here.
Posted in Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged:… [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 4:34 pm
A panel on Digitization Projects and Law Libraries will be held 18 March 2010 at the library of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The panel is sponsored by GPLLA, the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association.
The panelists will be:
John Joergensen, creator of the Rutgers Camden Law Library Digital Collections and blogger at The Hacked Librarian; and
Michelle Ayers of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Library.
The panelists will discuss the… [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 11:03 am
Professor Dr. Paulo Quaresma of Universidade de Évora Departamento de Informática has published Legal Information Extraction ? Machine Learning Algorithms + Linguistic Information, in LREC 2012 Conference Proceedings: Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT-2012) Workshop, pp. 37-38.
Here is the abstract:
In order to automatically extract information from legal texts we propose the use of a mixed approach, using linguistic information and machine learning techniques. In the proposed… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 3:09 pm
Videos are now available for all of the workshop panels and the Law.gov panel from Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), a workshop held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).
Click here for a summary of the legal-information-related discussion at the workshop.
Posted in Applications, Articles and papers, Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: AustLII,… [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 10:22 pm
A new program to provide long-term preservation for digital legal periodicals was announced on 1 December 2010 by the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), according to a post by Shaunna Mireau.
According to the post, the new preservation system will use CLOCKSS technology.
Filed under: Applications, Projects, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: bepress, Berkeley Electronic Press, CLOCKSS, Legal ejournals, Legal Information… [read post]
21 Apr 2013, 5:22 pm
Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf and Ermo Täks, both of Tallinn University of Technology, have published Simplifying the law—can ICT help us? forthcoming in International Journal of Law and Information Technology.
Here is the abstract:
The article analyses how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can assist in simplifying law, by visualizing it and structuring it. It describes current research as well as activities by the European Union to make law more accessible by using ICT.… [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 6:05 pm
Professor Edward L. Rubin of Vanderbilt University Law School has edited Legal Education in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in May 2012).
Here is the table of contents:
Part I. Creating Digital Teaching Materials:
1. The digital path of the law. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
2. Open source and the reinvention of legal education. Matthew T. Bodie
3. Copyright and innovation in legal course materials. R. Anthony Reese
Part II. Teaching with Digital Course… [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 1:06 am
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 16 May 2011 — has been issued for AICOL 2011: The Third Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Law , to be held 16 August 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The workshop is to be held in conjunction with IVR 2011: XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Papers for AICOL 2011 are invited on the following topics: Law and Science Law and Cognitive Science Law and Complexity Theory Complex Systems Legal Theory… [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 8:43 pm
Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted Legal Reference Resolvers, at Legix.info.
The post addresses redirection, making references canonical, a repository service, and resolver routing.
For more details, please see the complete post.
HT @grantcv1
Filed under: Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts Tagged: Grant Vergottini, Legal citations, Legal descriptive metadata, Legal identifier resolvers, Legal identifiers, Legal metadata, Legal reference resolvers, Legal references,… [read post]
22 May 2010, 12:52 pm
Professor Paulo Quaresma and Teresa Gonçalves, both of Universidade de Évora Departamento de Informática, have published Using Linguistic Information and Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Entities from Juridical Documents, in Semantic Processing of Legal Texts: Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language 27-43 (Enrico Francesconi et al. eds., 2010). (Click here for a description of the print version of the book.)
Here is the abstract of the paper:
Information extraction from legal… [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 12:41 pm
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship has published Towards Annotating and Extracting Textual Legal Case Elements, in LOAIT 2010: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy, July 7th, 2010, at 9-18 (Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Piercarlo Rossi, and Daniela Tiscornia eds., 2010). Here is the abstract:
In common law contexts, legal cases are decided… [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 3:42 am
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.
The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on… [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 8:30 pm
At least two legal informatics papers will be presented this week at HICSS 46 (a.k.a. HICSS 2013): Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, being held 7-10 January 2013 in Maui, Hawaii:
Keith Walker and Douglas Oard: Extending Argument Maps To Provide Decision Support For Rulemaking
Petra Asprion and Gerhard Knolmayer: Assimilation of Compliance Software in Highly Regulated Industries: An Empirical Multitheoretical Investigation
I’ve requested abstracts from the authors and if the… [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 6:14 pm
Originalism 2.0: The 2010 National Student Symposium of the Federalist Society, was held 26-27 February 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Click here for the conference program.
Click here for the list of speakers.
Click here for an archive of Twitter tweets from the first, fourth, & fifth of the conference panels. The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #orig20.
If the conference video is Webcast at some future time, a link will be added… [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 5:28 pm
There has been some discussion recently of a legal document cloud: a version, specifically for legal texts, of DocumentCloud, the online document repository for journalists that uses OpenCalais to perform semantic analysis and annotation of documents.
[Here is a recent example of the use of DocumentCloud to annotate a legal text, in this instance the U.S. federal district court decision, in the National Security Letters case.]
Alan deLevie said that a legal document cloud had been discussed during… [read post]
5 May 2013, 1:56 pm
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.
The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on… [read post]