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Semantic Processing of Legal Texts

Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6036)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Legal Text Processing and Information Extraction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Named Entity Recognition and Resolution in Legal Text

      • Christopher Dozier, Ravikumar Kondadadi, Marc Light, Arun Vachher, Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, Ramdev Wudali
      Pages 27-43
    3. Approaches to Text Mining Arguments from Legal Cases

      • Adam Wyner, Raquel Mochales-Palau, Marie-Francine Moens, David Milward
      Pages 60-79
  3. Legal Text Processing and Construction of Knowledge Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Automatic Identification of Legal Terms in Czech Law Texts

      • Karel Pala, Pavel Rychlý, Pavel Å merk
      Pages 83-94
    3. Integrating a Bottom–Up and Top–Down Methodology for Building Semantic Resources for the Multilingual Legal Domain

      • Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Wim Peters, Daniela Tiscornia
      Pages 95-121
    4. Ontology Based Law Discovery

      • Alessio Bosca, Luca Dini
      Pages 122-135
    5. Multilevel Legal Ontologies

      • Gianmaria Ajani, Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Marco Martin, Alessandro Mazzei, Daniele P. Radicioni et al.
      Pages 136-154
  4. Legal Text Processing and Semantic Indexing, Summarization and Translation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
    2. Semantic Indexing of Legal Documents

      • Erich Schweighofer
      Pages 157-169
    3. Automated Classification of Norms in Sources of Law

      • Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels
      Pages 170-191
    4. Efficient Multilabel Classification Algorithms for Large-Scale Problems in the Legal Domain

      • Eneldo Loza Mencía, Johannes Fürnkranz
      Pages 192-215
    5. An Automatic System for Summarization and Information Extraction of Legal Information

      • Emmanuel Chieze, Atefeh Farzindar, Guy Lapalme
      Pages 216-234
    6. Evaluation Metrics for Consistent Translation of Japanese Legal Sentences

      • Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kazuhiro Imai, Katsuhiko Toyama
      Pages 235-248
  5. Back Matter

Keywords

  • argumentation
  • artificial intelligence
  • classification
  • corpus
  • information extraction
  • information retrieval
  • intelligence
  • knowledge
  • knowledge discovery
  • knowledge representation

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi, Daniela Tiscornia

  • Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR, Area della Ricerca di Pisa,, Pisa, Italy

    Simonetta Montemagni

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Wim Peters

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