Law, ontologies and the semantic web : channelling the legal information flood / edited by Joost Breuker [and others].

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The flood, the channels and the dykes : managing legal information in a globalized and digital world / Joost Breuker, Pompeu Casanovas, Michel C.A. Kein and Enrico Francesconi -- LKIF core : principled ontology development for the legal domain / Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Marcello Di Bello and Alexander Boer -- Introducing patter-based design for legal ontologies / Aldo Gangemi -- Ontology learning from Italian legal texts / Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli and Giulia Venturi -- Definitions in court decisions : automatic extraction and ontology acquisition / Stephan Walter and Manfred Pinkal -- Automatic argumentation detection and its role in law and the semantic web / Raquel Mochales Palau and Marie-Francine Moens -- Matching law ontologies using an extended argumentation framework based on confidence degrees / Cassia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma and Renata Vieira -- Copyright licenses reasoning using an OWL-DL ontology / Roberto Garcia and Rosa Gil -- An ontology-based decision support system for judges / Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas and Joan-Josep Valbé -- A two-level knowledge approach to support multilingual legislative drafting / T. Agnoloni, L. Bacci, E. Francesconi, W. Peters, S. Montemagni and G. Venturi -- The e-Sentencias prototype : a procedural ontology for legal multimedia applications in the Spanish civil courts / Pompeu Casanovas, Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia, Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera, Mercedes Blázquez, Marta Poblet, Jordi Carrabina and José Manuel López-Cobo.

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Based on workshops and conferences on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Law, this work deals with legal ontologies and Semantic Web applications, covering both theoretical aspects and practical systems.

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