The school aims at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT standards emerging for legislation, judiciary, parliamentary and administrative documents. The course provides understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative and administrative process, awareness of the tools based on legal XML standards and of their constellations, and the ability to participate in the drafting and use of standard-compliant documents throughout law-making process. In particular we would like to create consciousness in the stakeholders in the legal domain about the benefits and the possibilities provided by the correct usage of Semantic Web technologies such as XML standards, ontologies, natural language processing techniques applied to legal texts, legal knowledge modelling and reasoning tools.
The school aims at providing knowledge of the most significant standards emerging for legislation, an understanding of their impact in the different phases of the legislative process, awareness of the technologies based on legislative standards, and the ability to participate in the preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout the participate in law-making process.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2009 (Extended Deadline: 7 August 2009)
The conference aims to be an original and ground-breaking symposium, where researchers from both Universities can engage into a constructive debate over the legal developments and transformations, both current and expected, in the digital environment.
The Workshop on "Approaches to legal ontologies" aims at presenting the different ways in which the issue of defining legal ontologies can be addressed according to different theoretical backgrounds or development objectives.
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