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JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Finding Case Law on a European Scale - Current Practice and Future Work
: There is a growing awareness that the national judge plays a vital role in the European legal system, as is illustrated by the emergence of various initiatives for the cross-bord...
Marc van Opijnen
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A Compliance Model of Trust
We present a model of past interaction trust model based on compliance of expected behaviours.
Guido Governatori, Subhasis Thakur, Duy Hoang Pham
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Concept and Context in Legal Information Retrieval
Abstract. There exist two broad approaches to information retrieval (IR) in the legal domain: those based on manual knowledge engineering (KE) and those based on natural language p...
K. Tamsin Maxwell, Burkhard Schafer
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
More on Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
This paper extends our previous logical analysis of presumptions and burden of proof by studying the force of a presumption once counterevidence has been offered. In the jurisprude...
Henry Prakken, Giovanni Sartor
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Abductive Practical Reasoning
In this paper we present an approach to abductive reasoning in law by examining it in the context of an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning. We present a particular scheme...
Floris Bex, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkins...
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Towards Semantic Interpretation of Legal Modifications through Deep Syntactic Analysis
We are concerned with the automatic semantic interpretation of legal modificatory provisions. We propose a novel approach which pairs deep syntactic parsing and a fine-grained taxo...
Raffaella Brighi, Leonardo Lesmo, Alessandro Mazze...
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
An Algorithm for Business Process Compliance
Abstract. This paper provides a novel mechanism to check whether business processes are compliant with business rules regulating them. The key point is that compliance is a relatio...
Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Representing narrative and testimonial knowledge in sense-making software for crime analysis
Abstract. In the AVERs sense-making tool for crime analysis different types of information are represented in different ways. More precisely, narrative knowledge is represented in ...
Susan W. van den Braak, Herre van Oostendorp, Henr...
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
About the logical relations between cases and rules
The two main types of law are legislation and precedents. Both types have a corresponding reasoning pattern determining legal consequences: legislation can be applied and precedent...
Bart Verheij
JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Argument Based Moderation of Benefit Assessment
: Error rates in the assessment of routine claims for welfare benefits have been found to very high in Netherlands, USA and UK. This is a significant problem both in terms of quali...
Maya Wardeh, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Frans Coene...