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By: Call for Papers: MPM 2011: Workshop on Modelling Policy-making « Legal Informatics Blog

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:47:40 +0000

[...] MPM 2011, the program committee co-chairs are Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship, and Dr. Neil Benn of the University of Leeds Institute of Communications [...]

By: Wyner on Organizing Legal Textual Corpora « Legal Informatics Blog

Wyner on Organizing Legal Textual Corpora « Legal Informatics Blog — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:37:57 +0000

[...] Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship has begun a discussion on the IAAIL LinkedIn group (an open group) of how to organize and aggregate legal textual corpora, and to enable commenting on them, for purposes of legal informatics research. [...]

By: » The Scouring of the White Horse The Occasional Pamphlet

» The Scouring of the White Horse The Occasional Pamphlet — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:46 +0000

[...] recent trip to London, I had an extra day free, and decided to visit the Uffington White Horse with a friend. The Uffington White Horse is one of the most mysterious human artifacts on the planet. In the [...]

By: LEX 2011 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web « Legal Informatics Blog

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:26:02 +0000

[...] Dr. Adam Wyner. [...]

By: Papers Posted: Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules: Workshop @ JURIX 2010 « Legal Informatics Blog

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:56:56 +0000

[...] The full text of the accepted papers for the JURIX 2010 Workshop on Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules, to be held 15 December 2010 at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, UK, have been posted by Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship: [...]

By: Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules: Workshop @ JURIX 2010 « Legal Informatics Blog

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:38:35 +0000

[...] held 15 December 2010 at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, UK, have been posted by Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship — and a member of our [...]

By: Wyner on Textual Information Extraction and Ontologies for Legal Case-Based Reasoning « Legal Informatics Blog

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:54:58 +0000

[...] Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship — and a member of our community — has posted slides from his recent presentation entitled Textual Information Extraction and Ontologies for Legal Case-Based Reasoning, given 10 November 2010 at the ISKO UK panel Legal Know-How: Organization and Semantic Analysis, held at University College London. Here is the abstract: This talk gives a brief overview of current developments and prospects in two related areas of the legal semantic web for legal cases – textual information extraction and ontologies. Textual information extraction is a process of automatically annotating and extracting textual information from the legal case base (precedents), thereby identifying elements such as participants, the roles the participants play, the factors which were considered in arriving at a decision, and so on. The information is valuable not only for search (to find applicable precedents), but also to populate an ontology for legal case-based reasoning. An ontology is a formal representation of key aspects of the knowledge of legal professionals with which we can reason (e.g. given an assertion that something is a legal case, we can infer other properties) and with respect to which we can write rules (e.g. reasoning using case factors to arrive at a legal decision). Since it is expensive to manually populate an ontology (meaning to read cases and input the data into the ontology), we use textual information extraction to automatically populate the ontology. We conclude with an appeal for open source, collaborative development of legal knowledge systems among partners in academia, industry, and government. [...]

By: Van Engers & Wyner on Arguing for Meaning in Legal Ontology Construction « Legal Informatics Blog

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:35:22 +0000

[...] Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law and Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship have published What Do You Mean? Arguing for Meaning, in LOAIT 2010: Proceedings of the 4th [...]

By: New on VoxPopuLII: Wyner on Weaving the Legal Semantic Web with Natural Language Processing « Legal Informatics Blog

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:23:08 +0000

[...] Wyner on Weaving the Legal Semantic Web with Natural Language Processing By legalinformatics Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship has posted Weaving the Legal Semantic Web with Natural Language Processing, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, [...]

By: Wyner & Peters: Towards Annotating and Extracting Textual Legal Case Factors « Legal Informatics Blog

Thu, 06 May 2010 20:37:49 +0000

[...] Peters: Towards Annotating and Extracting Textual Legal Case Factors By legalinformatics Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship and Dr. Wim Peters of the University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science will present a [...]