The e-Sentencias Prototype: A Procedural Ontology for Legal Multimedia Applications in the Spanish Civil Courts

Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Emma Teodoro Martinez, Xavier Binefa, Ciro Garcia

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Abstract

Search, retrieval, and management of multimedia contents are challenging tasks for users and researchers alike. We introduce a software-hardware system for the global management of the multimedia contents produced by Spanish Civil Courts. The ultimate goal is to obtain an automatic classification of images and segments of the audiovisual records that, coupled with textual semantics, allows an efficient navigation and retrieval of judicial documents and additional legal sources. This paper describes our knowledge acquisition process, sets a typology of Spanish Civil hearings as performed in practice, and a preliminary procedural ontology at its actual stage of development (e-Sentencias ontology). A discussion on procedural, contextual and multimedia ontologies is also provided.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLaw, Ontologies and the Semantic Web Channeling the legal informational flood. Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications
EditorsJoost Breuker, Pompeu Casanovas, Michel Klein, Enrico Francesconi
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherIOS Press
Pages199-220
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-60750-384-2
ISBN (Print)978-1-58603-942-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
PublisherIOS Press
Volume188
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

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