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Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval

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Approaches to Legal Ontologies

Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series ((LGTS,volume 1))

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In this work, we study the possibilities of multimedia management and semantic annotation focused on the legal domain and on multimedia ontologies. In this field, professionals are used to consuming the most of their time searching and retrieving legal information. For instance, search and retrieval of multimedia contents are the basis of the whole applications in scenarios such as e-discovery and e-learning. In addition, the legal multimedia explosion increases the need of storing these files in a structured form to facilitate the access to this information in an efficient and effective way. Several drawbacks appear when a multimedia ontology is used to represent the knowledge extracted from multimedia files due to the semantic gap. In this work, this topic is also discussed.

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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio) under Grants TSI-020501-2008-131 and CSO2008-05536.

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  1. UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Jorge González-Conejero

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  1. European University Institute, Via Boccaccio, Villa Schifanoia 121, Florence, 50133, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

  2. Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08193, Spain

    Pompeu Casanovas

  3. Ittig- CNR, Via dei Barucci 20, Firenze, 50127, Italy

    Mariangela Biasiotti

  4. Facultat de Dret, Institut de Dret i Tecnologia, Campus UAB, Edifici B, Barcelona - Bellaterra, 08193, Spain

    Meritxell Fernández-Barrera

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González-Conejero, J. (2011). Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval. In: Sartor, G., Casanovas, P., Biasiotti, M., Fernández-Barrera, M. (eds) Approaches to Legal Ontologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0120-5_15

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