BestPortal: Lessons learned in lightweight semantic access to court proceedings

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Abstract

The BestPortal is part of an initiative that aims to improve the ability of citizens to determine their legal position. Publishing court proceedings is a natural step to improve access and transparency of the legal system. We discuss the limitations of both such an 'open data' approach, and of more traditional knowledge intensive approaches, and present a flexible mechanism that allows us to bridge the gap between legal and layman conceptualisations of the world. This approach has been implemented as a publicly accessible portal and uses the BestMap ontology to define mappings between the two vocabularies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLegal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2009
Subtitle of host publicationThe 22nd Annual Conference
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages69-78
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781607500827
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume205
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

Keywords

  • Court proceedings
  • Data. Gov.
  • Government data
  • Information retrieval
  • Linked data
  • Mapping
  • Ontology
  • Open data
  • OWL
  • Semantic Web
  • SKOS
  • Vocabulary

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