A call for papers — with submission deadline of 22 June 2012 — has been issued for a special issue of Semantic Web Journal, on the topic: “Semantic Web for the Legal Domain”.
The guest editors of the special issue are:
- Pompeu Casanovas of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona + Victoria University;
- Monica Palmirani of the University of Bologna;
- Silvio Peroni of the University of Bologna;
- Fabio Vitali of the University of Bologna.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
- Modelling access policies to Semantic Web datasets
- Semantic Web and online dispute resolution and mediation
- Law and Regulations patterns of Social Web communities (such as Second Life, Facebook, or Twitter)
- Semantic sensor networks in lawsuits, crisis mapping, emergencies and stand-by forces
- Semantic Web techniques and e-discovery in large legal document collections
- Semantic Web technologies and opinion collection and analysis
- Legal content and knowledge in the Linked Data
- Knowledge acquisition and concept representation on annotations and legal texts
- Legal reasoning and query in the Semantic Web
- Text and legal interpretation in legal semantics
- Scalability issues in representing law and legal texts
- Analysis of provenance information to detect violations of norms/policies
- Legal knowledge in trust models
- Expressive vs. lightweight representations of legal content
- Core and domain ontologies in the legal domain
- Theories, design patterns and ontologies in legal argumentation
- Time and legal content representation (texts, concepts, norms)
- OWL approaches to reasoning and legal knowledge
- Linking legal content to external resources
- Provenance, trust and metadata for authoritative sources
- SPARQL queries on large legal datasets
- Legal knowledge extraction using NLP and ontologies
- User-friendly applications and interface design to interact with legal semantic information
- Publishing/reusing legal-related content in Linked Data
- Legal semantic services and mobile applications
- Rules and Automated Reasoning in the Semantic Web
For more information, please see the complete call.
HT Monica Palmirani.
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