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17 May 2010, 7:47 pm
Tomasz Zurek of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University presented a paper entitled Conflicts in Legal Knowledge Base, at LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 3 May 2010, in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with BIS 2010: The 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems. Here is the abstract of the paper:
The simulation of inference processes performed by lawyers can be seen as one way to create advisory legal system. In order to simulate… [read post]
14 Sep 2012, 12:29 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 11:21 am
Professor Dr. Ana Haydée Di Iorio, Bibiana Beatriz Luz Clara, Esq., and Professor Dr. Roberto Giordano Leren, all of Universidad FASTA Facultad de Ingeniería, have published Ontologies, ICTs and Law: The International Ontojuris Project, 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 95-102 (Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Piercarlo Rossi, and Daniela… [read post]
22 May 2010, 2:45 pm
Florian Kuhn of Universität Potsdam Department Linguistik will present a paper entitled A Description Language for Content Zones of German Court Decisions (for the full text of the paper, click here for the conference proceedings in PDF and scroll down to the page numbered 1) at SPLeT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 23 May 2010 in Malta.
The workshop is part of LREC 2010: The 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Here is the… [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 10:13 am
Dr. Susan van den Braak has published her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Sensemaking Software for Crime Analysis (2010).
Dr. van den Braak will defend this dissertation on 15 March 2010 at Senaatszaal van het Academiegebouw, Universiteit Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Here is the abstract:
Criminal investigation is a difficult and laborious process that is prone to error as teams of investigators may be subject to tunnel vision, groupthink, and confirmation bias. As a result,… [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 9:00 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 10 November 2010 — has been issued for ODR Workshop 2010: The 6th International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution, to be held 15 December 2010 in Liverpool, England, UK, in conjunction with JURIX 2010.
The theme of the workshop is: “Web 2.0, semantic web and the mobile web.”
Papers are invited on the following topics:
“Argumentation and ODR
Decision support for ODR
Theories of dispute resolution and ODR
Modeling and designing of ODR… [read post]
7 May 2012, 4:03 pm
Eric Mill of Sunlight Labs has posted two new sets of software to GitHub:
US Code Citation Extraction library in JavaScript
Minimal Node.js API over US Code Citation Extraction library in JavaScript
According to Eric, posting this code constitutes “the tiny, humble foundation of a public project to extract legal citations from blocks of text large and small.”
For more information, contact Eric Mill.
HT @konklone.
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14 Jul 2011, 10:28 pm
Ed Walters, Esq., of FastCase, has posted Tear Down This (Pay)Wall: The End of Private Copyright in Public Statutes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Mr. Walters describes the extent to which U.S. state governments and for-profit legal publishers assert copyright in U.S. state statutes, and the problems this poses for due process of law, as well as for competition and innovation in the legal publishing industry. Mr.… [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 10:44 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 6:08 pm
Approaches to Legal Ontologies: Theories, Domains, Methodologies (Springer 2011), a collection of scholarly articles on legal ontologies, has been published. The volume is edited by Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor of Università di Bologna CIRSFID, Professor Dr. Pompeu Casanovas of the Institute of Law & Technology (IDT) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Maria Angela Biasiotti of ITTIG/CNR, and Meritxell Fernández-Barrera of the European University Institute Department of Law.… [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]
22 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 26 November 2012 — has been issued for the Jurix 2012 workshop entitled Legal Resources from Text to Rules, to be held 20 December 2012 in Amsterdam.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 17-20 December 2012 at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.
Here are details of the workshop:
The time is ripe for investigating the… [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 7:51 am
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 9:01 pm
Blawg Review #305 is hosted by a fool in the forest. Being the last waltz for Blawg Review, as it were, this is dedicated to all those who have hosted the carnival of law blogs during the past six years. Adieu. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 10:26 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 14 April 2011 — has been issued for The 2011 Workshop on Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law, to be held 6 June 2011, at The University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The workshop is being held in conjunction with ICAIL 2011: The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Papers for the workshop are invited on the following topics:
Agent roles in law-based institutions and plan recognition based on… [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 10:21 am
Blawg Review #239 at this blog about Human Rights in Ireland is sure to be as passionate as it is entertaining, and will include surprise performances by superstars born in the USA. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 3:38 am
Christine Kirchberger, LL.M., M.S.L.I.T. and Pam Storr, LL.M., both of the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI), have posted Law as an App: Technology in Legal Education, at VoxPopuLII.
The post begins:
Following up on a previously published article on LaaS – Law as a Service, this post discusses different ways that apps can be included into the law degree curriculum.
The sections of the post have the titles:
“Changing Legal Education Through the Use of Apps”
“Legal Aspects… [read post]
18 May 2010, 11:20 am
My post entitled Context and Legal Informatics Research has been published on Slaw, the Canadian legal blog. Here is the introduction:
The relationship of legal information to context is a key dimension of recent developments in legal informatics scholarship and innovation. These developments range from investigations in law and psychology to political and moral theory, from explorations in artificial intelligence and law to legal information theory, and from research on the legal Semantic Web to… [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 6:02 pm
Associate Dean Bernard J. Hibbitts of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and the Publisher and Editor in Chief of JURIST, has published The Technology of Law, 102 Law Library Journal 101 (2010) (Issue No. 1). This article was “adapted from a plenary address given at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, May 26, 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia.” Here is the abstract:
Professor Hibbitts argues that contemporary fascination with the law of technology has led us… [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 6:38 pm
Several examples of how the URN:LEX legal identifier standard can be applied to US legal documents, have been posted on LexCraft, the wiki for sharing best practices in legal information systems development, hosted by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
URN:LEX is one of the legal metadata standards proposed to be used in the Law.gov legal open government data project.
The URN:LEX examples available so far on LexCraft cover:
U.S. federal statutes, regulations, and case law;
U.S.… [read post]