195 research outputs found
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Proceedings of JURIX 2008: The Twenty-First Annual Conference
No full textProceedings of the Conference Approaching the Multilanguage Complexity of European Law: Methodologies in Comparison
No full textThe contributions presented at the Conference 'Approaching the Multilanguage Complexity of European Law: Methodologies in Comparison' (European University Institute of Florence, 17th November 2006) offer a wide spectrum of analyses and reflections on the multilanguage complexity of European law, drawn from different disciplines as European law, comparative law, legal theory, jurilinguistics, legal translation, and knowledge engineering. The diverse but complementary methodologies emerging within such disciplines need to be integrated for handling legal knowledge in a way which respects the conceptual and linguistic diversity of the existing legal traditions while guaranteeing the unity of European law. An integrated multidisciplinary approach to multilingual legal knowledge can indeed enable European lawyers and policy-makers to better understand each other and to improve their understanding of legal language
The LOIS project
No full textThe legal knowledge base resulting from the LOIS (Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing) project consists of legal WordNets in six languages (Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Czech, English). Its architecture is based on the EuroWordNet (EWN) framework (Vossen et al, 1997). Using the EWN framework assures compatibility of the LOIS WordNets with EWN, allowing them to function as an extension of EWN for the legal domain. For each legal system, the document-derived legal concepts are integrated into a taxonomy, which links into existing formal ontologies. These give the legal wordnets a first formal backbone, which can, in future, be further extended.
The database consists of 33,000 synsets, and is aimed to be used in information retrieval, where it provides mono- and multi-lingual access to European legal databases for legal experts as well as for laymen. The LOIS knowledge base also provides a flexible, modular architecture that allows integration of multiple classification schemes, and enables the comparison of legal systems by exploring translation, equivalence and structure across the different legal wordnets
Frente a la política educativa del gobierno de Milei ¿por qué es justo el reclamo en las universidades nacionales?
No full textThe author explains what is happening in universitiestoday, emphasizing onthe union conflict. He analizesthe employment and salary situation of university and pre-university teachers with the purpose of demonstrating the justice of their claims. From his role as UnionSecretary, Tiscornia takes stock of the great mobilization of April 23 and sets outhow university teaching, students and the community in general should be challenged with a view to defending public education. After reporting the privatizing and mercantilist intention of emptying the university, he calls for building a collective solution.El autor explica qué está pasando hoy en las universidades, haciendo hincapié en el conflicto gremial. Examina la situación laboral y salarial de la docencia universitaria y preuniversitaria con el propósito de demostrar la justicia de los reclamos docentes. Desde su rol como Secretario Gremial, Tiscornia hace un balance de la gran movilización del 23 de abril y expone cómo se debería interpelar a la docencia universitaria, al estudiantado y a la comunidad en general con vistas a defender la educación pública. Tras denunciar la intencionalidad privatizadora y mercantilista del vaciamiento universitario, exhorta a construir una salida colectiva
Legal Knowledge Representation: A Twofold Experience in the Intellectual Property Domain
No full textThis paper analyzes the representation of legal knowledge, and of Intellectual Property (or IP) law in particular. This is done by looking at two ways of representing the IP domain: through an IP ontology and by way of rule representation. And although these two solutions differ in many respects, they share the conceptual problems specific to this domain. This paper is based on research conducted under the EU-funded project ALIS (IST-2004-2.4.9)
More on presumptions and burdens of proof
No full textThis 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 jurisprudential literature different accounts of this issue have been given: some have argued that a presumption is nullified by counterarguments while others have maintained that this gives presumptions a force that is too slight. We argue that these differences largely are not a matter of logic but of legal policy, and we show how the various accounts can be logically formalised.
Concepts in Law and in Knowledge Representation: Inferential Links vs Conceptual Hierarchies
No full textI shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology (a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications, and distinguish the mere possession of an inferentially defined concept from its endorsement, which also involves the acceptance of the concept’s constitutive inferences. For making this distinction, I shall combine the inferential and eliminative analysis of legal concepts proposed by Alf Ross with the views of theoretical concepts in science advanced by Frank Ramsey and Rudolf Carnap. Then, I shall consider how concepts can be characterised by defining the corresponding terms and placing them within an ontology.
Finally, I shall argue that there is a tension between the inferential and the ontological approach, but that both need to be taken into account, to capture the meaning and the cognitive function of legal concept
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