Archived Tweets and Resources from LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

Click here for archived Twitter tweets, in .csv format, from LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference, held 7-9 October 2012 at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Click here for the conference Website.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lvi2012, and the Twitter account for the conference is @LVI2012.

Click here for the conference program and abstracts of presentations.

Some conference sessions will be livestreamed here.

For blog posts and other resources related to the conference, please see the comments to this post.

October 7-9: LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

LVI 2012: The 25th Law via the Internet Conference, is being held 7-9 October 2012, at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, in Ithaca, New York, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lvi2012, and the Twitter account for the conference is @LVI2012.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets, in .csv format, from the conference.

Click here for the conference program and abstracts of presentations.

Some conference sessions will be livestreamed here.

Larzi and Zarco-Tejada: JurWordNet and FrameNet Approaches to Meaning Representation: A Legal Case Study

Antonio Lazari of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Dr. María Ángeles Zarco-Tejada of Universidad de Cádiz have published JurWordNet and FrameNet Approaches to Meaning Representation: A Legal Case Study, in LREC 2012 Conference Proceedings: Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT-2012) Workshop, pp. 21-26.

Here is the abstract:

This paper describes JurWordNet, FrameNet and LOIS approaches towards meaning representation regarding the concept ‘State Liability’ from a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective. Our starting point has been the lexical and conceptual mismatching of legal terms that the process of harmonization in the European Union has manifested. Our study analyzes such concept in Italian, Spanish, French and English and shows how a deeper sub-language based representation of meaning is needed to account for such phenomena. We examine the most important computational-lexical models in an attempt to identify the most suitable and appropriate approach towards lexical-conceptual mismatching of the concept ‘State liability’ in the European legal tradition. Our proposal shows a formalization of the concept in the four systems mentioned and uses semantic features to represent lexical mismatching and cultural differences. With this study we show in a systematic way the differences in legal tradition and the reasons for divergence in the judicial use of related concepts.

Accepted Presentations for LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

The accepted presentations and their abstracts have been posted for LVI 2012: The 25th Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 7-9 October 2012, at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA.

April 2 Extended Call Deadline: LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with extended submission deadline of 2 April 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

March 15 deadline: Call for Papers and Presentations: LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with submission deadline of 15 March 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

Call for Papers and Presentations: LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with submission deadline of 15 March 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

Linked Data LCSH & RAMEAU Now Link to Each Other: Implications for Legal Informatics

[NOTE: Updated on 18 February 2010 to correct RAMEAU link.]

The Linked Data version of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the Linked Data version of the French-language RAMEAU subject headings now link to each other.

See, e.g., the link in the LCSH record for “subrogation” to the corresponding RAMEAU record, and the link in the corresponding RAMEAU record to the relevant LCSH record.

This is a promising development for legal informatics, for at least two reasons. First, since LCSH and RAMEAU both contain very extensive sets of legal subject terms, this new connection between LCSH and RAMEAU demonstrates how Linked Data can enable the creation of machine-readable relationships between sophisticated legal ontologies.

Second, since LCSH contains a sophisticated English-language legal ontology, and RAMEAU contains a sophisticated French-language legal ontology, the connection of the Linked Data versions of these ontologies offers legal informatics researchers rich opportunities to explore cross-language legal knowledge representation in a number of contexts, including legal artificial intelligence, information retrieval, text mining, text processing, and translation.

Click here for commentary about the relevance of the Linked Data version of LCSH for legal informatics, and click here for a list of law-related Linked Data resources.

Call for Papers: Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web

A call for papers, with submissions deadline of 21 February 2010, has been issued for The 1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, to be held April 26 or 27, 2010, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The workshop is being held in conjunction with WWW 2010: The 19th International World Wide Web Conference.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• models for the integration of linguistic information with ontologies
• architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web
• models for multilinguality in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and RDF(S)
• localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation, multilingual terms
• adaptation of (multilingual) lexicons to ontologies
• automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies
• multilingual & cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction & ontology population
• multilingual aspects of semantic search & querying of knowledge repositories
• multilinguality and linked data (generation, querying, visualization & presentation)
• multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization
• ontology learning across languages

For more information, please see the call for papers.