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LOAIT-2007
2nd Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on
Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
June 4th, 2007, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Pompeu Casanovas *
Maria Angela Biasiotti #
Enrico Francesconi #
Maria Teresa Sagri #

Table of Contents

1. The Ontology of Legal Possibilities and Legal Potentialities
   Pamela N. Gray, pp. 7-23
2. The Legal-RDF Ontology. A Generic Model for Legal Documents
   John McClure, pp. 25-42
3. The LKIF Core Ontology of Basic Legal Concepts
   Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Marcello Di Bello, Alexander Boer, pp. 43-63
4. Design patterns for legal ontology constructions
   Aldo Gangemi, pp. 65-85
5. Developing ontologies for legal multimedia applications
   Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia, Marius Monton, Jordi Carrabina, Carlos Montero, Javier Serrano, Mercedes Blázquez, Richard Benjamins, Emma Teodoro, Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, pp. 87-101
6. A linguistic-ontological support for multilingual legislative drafting: the DALOS Project
   Enrico Francesconi, Pierluigi Spinosa, Daniela Tiscornia, pp. 103-111
7. NLP-based ontology learning from legal texts. A case study
   Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli, Giulia Venturi, pp. 113-129
8. Semantic Spaces and Multilingualism in the Law: The Challenge of Legal Knowledge Management
   Doris Liebwald, pp. 131-148
9. Legal Query Expansion using Ontologies and Relevance Feedback
   Erich Schweighofer, Anton Geist, pp. 149-160