Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani of Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu» and CIRSFID; Dr. Guido Governatori of NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory; and colleagues, have published LegalRuleML: XML-Based Rules and Norms, in Frank Olken, Monica Palmirani and Davide Sottara (Eds.), Rule – Based Modeling and Computing on the Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, RuleML R2011– America, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Florida, USA, November 3-5, 2011 (2011). Here is the abstract:
Legal texts are the foundational resource where to discover rules and norms that feed into different concrete (often XML-based) Web applications. Legislative documents provide general norms and specific procedural rules for eGovernment and eCommerce environments, while contracts specify the conditions of services and business rules (e.g. service level agreements for cloud computing), and judgments provide information about the legal argumentation and interpretation of norms to concrete case-law. Such legal knowledge is an important source that should be detected, properly modeled and expressively represented in order to capture all the domain particularities. This paper provides an extension of RuleML called LegalRuleML for fostering the characteristics of legal knowledge and to permit its full usage in legal reasoning and in the business rule domain. LegalRuleML encourages the effective exchange and sharing of such semantic information between legal documents, business rules, and software applications.
The paper will be presented 5 November 2011 at RuleML @ BRF 2011: The 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based, Industry Focused, being held 3-5 November 2011, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Tags: Artificial intelligence and law, Guido Governatori, International Symposium on Rules, Legal knowledge representation, Legal rule markup language, Legal semantic web, Legal XML, LegalRuleML Legal RuleML, Modeling legal rules, Monica Palmirani, RuleML, RuleML @ BRF 2011, Semantic Web and law
