TY - GEN
T1 - Retrieval of case law to provide layman with information about liability
T2 - Preliminary results of the BEST-project
AU - Uijttenbroek, E.M.
AU - Lodder, A.R.
AU - Klein, M.C.A.
AU - van Harmelen, F.A.H.
AU - Wildeboer, Gwen R.
AU - Sie, R.L.L.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper describes the experiments carried out in the context of the BEST-project, an interdisciplinary project with researchers from the Law faculty and the AI department of the VU University Amsterdam. The aim of the project is to provide laymen with information about their legal position in a liability case, based on retrieved case law. The process basically comes down to (1) analyzing the input of a layman in terms of a layman ontology, (2) mapping this ontology to a legal ontology, (3) retrieve relevant case law based, and finally (4) present the results in a comprehensible way to the layman. This paper describes the experiments undertaken regarding step 4, and in particular step 3.
AB - This paper describes the experiments carried out in the context of the BEST-project, an interdisciplinary project with researchers from the Law faculty and the AI department of the VU University Amsterdam. The aim of the project is to provide laymen with information about their legal position in a liability case, based on retrieved case law. The process basically comes down to (1) analyzing the input of a layman in terms of a layman ontology, (2) mapping this ontology to a legal ontology, (3) retrieve relevant case law based, and finally (4) present the results in a comprehensible way to the layman. This paper describes the experiments undertaken regarding step 4, and in particular step 3.
KW - Case law
KW - Concept-based search
KW - Information retrieval
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-85569-9_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-85569-9_19
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3540855688
SN - 9783540855682
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 291
EP - 311
BT - Computable Models of the Law
A2 - Casanovas, P.
A2 - Sartor, G.
A2 - Casellas, N.
A2 - Rubino, R.
PB - Springer
ER -