Approaches to Legal Ontologies

1. Introduction: Theory and Methodology in Legal Ontology Engineering: Experiences and Future Directions
Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Maria Angela Biasiotti, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera

2. The Legal Theory Perspective: Doctrinal Conceptual Systems vs. Computational Ontologies
Meritxell Fernández-Barrera, Giovanni Sartor

3. Empirically Grounded Developments of Legal Ontologies: A Socio-Legal Perspective
Pompeu Casanovas, Núria Casellas, Joan-Josep Vallbé

4. A Cognitive Science Perspective on Legal Ontologies
Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra

5. Social Ontology and Documentality
Maurizio Ferraris

6. The Case-Based Reasoning Approach: Ontologies for Analogical Legal Argument
Kevin D. Ashley

7. A Complex-System Approach: Legal Knowledge, Ontology, Information and Networks
Pierre Mazzega, Danièle Bourcier, Paul Bourgine, Nadia Nadah, Romain Boulet

8. The Multi-Layered Legal Information Perspective
Guido Boella, PierCarlo Rossi

9. Legal Ontologies: The Linguistic Perspective
Maria Angela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia

10. A Legal Document Ontology: The Missing Layer in Legal Document Modelling
Monica Palmirani, Luca Cervone, Fabio Vitali

11. From Thesaurus Towards Ontologies in Large Legal Databases
Ángel Sancho Ferrer, Carlos Fernández Hernández, José Manuel Mateo Rivero

12. The Computational Ontology Perspective: Design Patterns for Web Ontologies
Aldo Gangemi, Valentina Presutti, Eva Blomqvist

13. A Learning Approach for Knowledge Acquisition in the Legal Domain
Enrico Francesconi

14. Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective
Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera

15. Legal Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Annotation for Search and Retrieval
Jorge González-Conejero

Avainsanat: Law, Law Theory/Law Philosophy, Information Systems and Communication Service, Philosophy of Law, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences