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Advanced lexical ontologies and hybrid knowledge based systems: First steps to a dynamic legal electronic commentary

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Legal Information Retrieval (IR) research has stressed the fact that legal knowledge systems should be sufficiently capable to interpret and handle the semantics of a database. Modeling (expert-) knowledge by using ontologies enhances the ability to extract and exploit information from documents. This contribution presents theories, ideas and notions regarding the development of dynamic electronic commentaries based on a comprehensive legal ontology.

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    Erich Schweighofer & Doris Liebwald

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This Article is based on a paper presented at the LOAIT Workshop in conjunction with the ICAIL Conference 2005, Bologna.

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Schweighofer, E., Liebwald, D. Advanced lexical ontologies and hybrid knowledge based systems: First steps to a dynamic legal electronic commentary. Artif Intell Law 15, 103–115 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9029-1

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