Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2006 – the Nineteenth Annual Conference

T.M. Van Engers, Editors158603698X, 9781586036980, 9781429467698

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Nineteenth JURIX Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2006). The large number of submissions shows that the interdisciplinary community is still growing and active. This volume again covers a broad range of topics. Argumentation is central to legal reasoning and therefore it is no surprise that researchers have focused on computational theories of argumentation. In this book four papers are dedicated to this topic. Typical to the legal field is the use of written knowledge sources, especially legal sources. These have been subject to AI & Law research for a long time, varying from structuring and accessing legal sources to using natural language processing techniques in order to determine the semantics of language utterances. This book contains four papers on legal sources. Central to AI and consequently to AI & Law are knowledge representation and ontologies. The latter especially are becoming more and more popular due to developments in Semantic Web research. Four papers on these topics can be read in this book. Three papers are included on applications and last but not least, the book contains four short papers on various topics.

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Table of contents :
LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS……Page 2
Preface……Page 6
Contents……Page 8
Zeno Revisited: Representation of Persuasive Argument……Page 10
Anchored Narratives in Reasoning About Evidence……Page 20
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof……Page 30
Modelling State Intervention in Cases of Conflicting Interests……Page 40
Automated Detection of Reference Structures in Law……Page 50
Improving Legal Document Summarization Using Graphical Models……Page 60
Thesaurus-Based Retrieval of Case Law……Page 70
A Public Index of Case Law References – The End of Multiple and Complex Citations……Page 80
Deterrence Under Uncertainty: A Case Study……Page 90
Open and Closed Intermediaries in Normative Systems……Page 100
An OWL Ontology of Fundamental Legal Concepts……Page 110
Discordance Detection in Regional Ordinance: Ontology-Based Validation……Page 120
Family_Mediator – Adding Notions of Fairness to Those of Interests……Page 130
Handling Personal Injury Claims PICE……Page 140
Application of Word Alignment for Supporting Translation of Japanese Statutes into English……Page 150
AVER: Argument Visualization for Evidential Reasoning……Page 160
An Action-Based Legal Model for Dynamic Digital Rights Expression……Page 166
Disjunction of Causes and Disjunctive Cause: A Solution to the Paradox of Conditio Sine Qua Non Using Minimal Abduction……Page 172
Developing Content for LKIF: Ontologies and Frameworks for Legal Reasoning……Page 178
Previous Publications by JURIX……Page 184
Contact Information on JURIX……Page 186
Author Index……Page 188