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The paper shows how to model judgments starting from the text and capturing not only the structural parts, but also the basic arguments used by the judge to reach its conclusions. We have also included a qualification of citations following the Shepard’s method. The goal of this approach is to build a complete ontology framework capable of detecting and modelling knowledge directly from the judgment’s text, providing the basic metadata to the logic and reasoning layers.
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Ceci, M., Palmirani, M. (2012). Ontology Framework for Judgment Modelling. In: Palmirani, M., Pagallo, U., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Models and Ethical Challenges for Legal Systems, Legal Language and Legal Ontologies, Argumentation and Software Agents. AICOL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7639. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35731-2_8
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