The Semantic Web and the LawOverview of the U.S. Legal SystemWhat do lawyers do?How do lawyers find the law now?Challenges to addressApplying semantic technologies to the LawHow can semantic technologies help?DifficultiesCurrent “semantic-ish” technologiesThe future…Developments, Trends, and Tools in the United StatesBy Iantha HaightFederal/state/county/city/special districtsExecutive/legislative/judicialSubstantive/proceduralResources for legal informationLegal formsInadequate access for the general publicLegal reasoning: IRACDiscover the facts of the caseFind the lawPaperworkManage the businessManage relationshipsManage their knowledgeStay currentWest’s Key Number System/Key CiteKeyword searchesLegal periodicalsEmail alertsContinuing education classesAsking colleaguesExperienceLuck?Information overload Information retrieval (recall and precision)Support decision makingExpedite routine tasksIn one word: efficiencyImprove public access to the lawHow?The law “relies on documents”—with a variety of structuresStandard legal markup languageLegal ontologiesWhere?Internal corporate settings (km & intranets)Government information via the InternetRegulatory metadata and content standardizationInformation extraction and pattern matchingMatching facts to existing lawModelling legal reasoning Management of workflows based on legally-defined tasksDecision supportSee Benjamins, V.R., Casanovas, P., Breuker, J., & Gangemi, Al. (2005). Law and the Semantic Web, an introduction. In Benjamins, V.R. et al. (Eds.), Law and the Semantic Web. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1-17.Slow to adapt (stare decisis? policy?)Implementation costsTransition costsGetting lawyers involvedMaking it easy/automaticMetadata can be evidence against your client or breach securityAgreeing on an ontologyAmerican Bar Association Standing Committee on Technology & Information SystemsLegal XMLE-filing (committee)West kmWestlaw Legal CalenderingWestlaw Litigator Case EvaluatorOntology-driven legal data management?Automated schedulingLegal argument assistance?Outcome predictionsLegal opinions issued by computers in small claims cases?Something
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