In previous workshops on legal ontologies the emphasis has
been on the use of ontologies as specifications of the knowledge required for
legal reasoning services (ICAIL-1997,
JURIX2001).
However, the `Semantic Web' initiative
has put ontologies as the pivotal basis for information exchange and management,
and this functionality does not only open exciting application perspectives but
also new research questions on the nature and structure of legal ontologies, and
on methodologies of ontological engineering. Legal domains are typically primary
candidates for web-based information distribution, exchange and management, as
for instance can be evidenced from `e-government' and `e-justice' initiatives in
Europe.
Papers for the workshop will be sollicited in conjunction with call for
contributions of the special issue of the AI & Law Journal (see
below).
As workshops emphasize discussion and exchange of views, there should be
sufficient space to allow the presentation of work that is innovative but not
yet mature enough for journal publication. On the other hand, the workshop
provides an excellent opportunity to acquaint the (potential) contributors to
the Journal with the work of other contributors, thus facilitating reference (in
the final versions*). Therefore, we want to combine these roles, but keep the
review procedures for the workshop and the Journal separate as follows:
Contributions can be submitted under three different objectives.
The call for papers will -- as far as content is concerned -- follow the call for contributions for the AI & Law Journal (see below), with the following extensions:
Legal information management:
The Program Committee for this workshop is as follows.
Co-chairs:
Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy
Daniela Tiscornia, ITTIG-CNR , Firenze, Italy
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Members:
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, GB
Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Madrid, Spain
Danièle Bourcier, (CERSA) - Université de Paris 2, France
Cristiano Castelfranchi, CNR, Roma, Italia
Rose Dieng, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France
Caterina Lupo (AIPA, Authority for IT in P.A., Rome, Italy)
Paulo Quaresma, University of Évora, Portugal
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austrich
Andre Valente, ISI, Los Angeles, USA
John Zeleznikow, Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning,
Scotland
* We assume that the AI & Law Journal does not expect final versions to be delivered before ICAIL, i.e. three months after the deadline of submitting the manuscripts.
Legal ontologies are an important and fruitful field of research for people
working in legal information systems. They are also an interesting topic for
scientists who traditionally do not belong to the AI and Law Community, such as
those who develop standards, ontologies, or methodologies for information
exchange (as in Semantic Web initiatives), as well as those studying the social
behaviour of electronic agents and of multiple agents interaction, will find
this topic of interest. However, the definition of the components and basic
features of an ontology for law still needs solid theoretical grounds, which
should be acceptable for legal philosophers and theorists. The aim of the issue
is to provide an investigation of the state of the art in the field, and to
collect contributions from different perspectives and from various experienced
experts, with the goal of identifying an international community aimed at
reaching a common methodology. Authors are strongly encouraged to present
extended examples illustrating how their ontologies are used.
As pointers to some previous or current initiatives in the field, the
Legont Workshops
and the LegOntoWeb
Working Group within the OntoWeb IST Thematic Network should be mentioned.
Topics of interest may include:
General:
Ontologies for general legal concepts
Ontologies for specific legal domains
Applications of legal ontologies
Reasoning with legal ontologies
Languages and tools for representing legal ontologies
Task-oriented:
NLP techniques for legal ontology learning
Ontologies and legal metadata standards
Specific:
Ontological characterization of norms and norm dynamics
Ontology of legal persons and institutions
Reality and the Law
Epistemology vs. ontology in the legal domain
Ontological treatment of legal open-textured concepts
Ontologies for ethical concepts and specific domains of professional ethics
Submission
Contributions should be submitted via e-mail to one of the editors by March 30,
2003.
Joost Breuker
University of Amsterdam
SWI (Social Science Informatics) LRI (Computer Science and
Law)
Roeterstraat 15 P-Box 1030
1018 WB Amsterdam 1000 BA Amsterdam
tel: (+31) 20 525 3494/6798/6789
fax: (+31) 20 525 3495/6896
Email: breuker@lri.jur.uva.nl
http://lri.jur.uva.nl:80/~breuker
Aldo Gangemi
Laboratory for Applied Ontology
ISTC-CNR (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione)
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council
Viale Marx 15
00137 Roma Italy
tel +39.06.86090249
fax +39.06.824737
Email: gangemi@ip.rm.cnr.it or
gangemi@acm.org
Daniela Tiscornia
ITTIG-CNR (Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell'Informazione Giuridica)
Institute of Legal Information Theory and Technologies, National
Research Council
via Panciatichi, 56/16
50127 Firenze Italy
tel +39.055.4399632
fax +39.055.4221637
Email: tiscornia@idg.fi.cnr.it
Radboud G.F. Winkels
Dept. of Computer Science & Law,
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
PO Box 1030
1000 BA Amsterdam
the Netherlands
Email: winkels@lri.jur.uva.nl
http://www.leibnizcenter.org/~winkels
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