Deliverables

Workpackage 1

• “Specification of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format”
  Deliverable D1.1
• “Translators to and from the LKIF for each of the knowledge formats of the participating vendors”
  Deliverable D1.3
• “OWL Ontology of Basic Legal Concepts”
  Deliverable D1.4
• “A reference implementation of an inference engine for LKIF”
  Deliverable D1.5
  
• “A specification of APIs for interacting with and using legal knowledge systems”
  Deliverable D1.6
  

Workpackage 3

• “General XML Formats for Legal Sources”
  Deliverable D3.1
• “Guidelines for Applying the New Format” (XML Schema)
  Deliverable D3.2
• “(Extended) tools for translating existing other formats into the new format”
  Deliverable D3.3
• “Reference Open Source Legal CMS”
  Deliverable D3.4

Workpackage 4

• “Refined specification of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF)”
  Deliverable D4.1
• “Refined translators to and from the LKIF for each of the knowledge formats of the participating vendors”
  • Translation between the representation languages of
    LKIF and Allex Gold
  • Haley Interchange Format Converter Technical Specification
  • Rulewise Translators
  • Translating OWL to s-expressions

  Deliverable D4.2

• “A refined implementation of an inference engine for LKIF”
  Deliverable D4.3
• “A refined specification of APIs for interacting with and using legal knowledge systems”
  Deliverable D4.4
• “LKIF User Report”
  Deliverable D4.5
• “Developing HARNESS: Towards a Hybrid Architecture for LKIF”
  Deliverable 4.6

Workpackage 5

• “First training course for LKIF”
  Deliverable D5.2
  

Workpackage 6

• “Periodic Activity Report” (2006)
  Deliverable D6.11
• “Periodic Activity Report” (2007)
  Deliverable D6.12
• “Periodic Activity Report” (2008)
  Deliverable D6.13
• “Project Presentation”
  Deliverable D6.14
  

Scientific Publications
2008

• A. Boer, R. Winkels, and F. Vitali. MetaLex XML and the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format. Computable Models of the Law. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4884, pp. 21-41, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-85568-2.
• Rinke Hoekstra. Use of owl in the legal domain (statement of interest). In Kendall Clark and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, editors, Proceedings of OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2008 DC), Washington, DC (metro), April 2008.
• Szymon Klarman, Rinke Hoekstra, and Marc Bron. Versions and applicability of concept definitions in legal ontologies. In Kendall Clark and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, editors, Proceedings of OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2008 DC), Washington, DC (metro), April 2008. [ .pdf ]
• E. de Maat, R. Winkels, and T. van Engers. Making Sense of Legal Texts. In G. Grewendorf and M. Rathert, editors, Formal Linguistics and Law, Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs (TiLSM). Mouton, De Gruyter, Berlin, (in press) 2008.
• Saskia van de Ven, Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra, Lars Wortel, and Abdallah El-Ali. Automated legal assessment in OWL 2. In Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Jurix 2008: The 21st Annual Conference, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, December 2008.
• Saskia van de Ven, Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Lars Wortel, and Abdallah El-Ali. Judging Amy: Automated legal assessment using OWL 2. In Proceedings of OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2008 EU), October 2008.
• A. Wyner, T. Bench-Capon and K. Atkinson. Three Senses of `Argument’. To appear in Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies.  LNAI, volume 4884, 2008.
• A. Wyner and T. Bench-Capon. Modelling Judicial Context in Argumentation Frameworks. To appear in COMMA 2008, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, 2008.

2007

• Alexander Boer, Radboud Winkels, and Fabio Vitali. Proposed XML standards for law: Metalex and LKIF. In Arno R. Lodder and Laurens Mommers, editors, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Jurix 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference Annual Conference, volume 165 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 19-28. IOS Press, December 2007.
• Emile de Maat and Radboud Winkels. Categorisation of norms. In Arno R. Lodder and Laurens Mommers, editors, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Jurix 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference Annual Conference, volume 165 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 79-88. IOS Press, December 2007.
• Gordon, T. F. Constructing arguments with a computational model of an argumentation scheme for legal rules. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (2007), pp. 117-121.
• Gordon, T. F. Visualizing Carneades argument graphs. Law, Probability and Risk; doi: 10.1093/lpr/mgm026.
• Gordon, T. F., Prakken, H., and Walton, D. The Carneades model of argument and burden of proof. Artificial Intelligence 171, 10-11 (2007), 875–896.
• Rinke Hoekstra, Joost Breuker, Marcello Di Bello, and Alexander Boer. The LKIF Core ontology of basic legal concepts. In Pompeu Casanovas, Maria Angela Biasiotti, Enrico Francesconi, and Maria Teresa Sagri, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (LOAIT 2007), June 2007.
• Szymon Klarman and Marc Bron. Representing definitional changes in legal ontologies. In Xavier Binefa, Marie Francine Moens, José Manuel López-Cobo, and Pompeu Casanovas, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimedia Ontologies and Artificial Techniques 2007 (MOAIL-07), Leiden, December 2007.
• A. Wyner and T. Bench-Capon. Towards an Extensible Argumentation System. In Proceedings of the European Conferences on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2007), volume 4724, pages 283-294. LNAI, 2007.
• A. Wyner and T. Bench-Capon. Argument Schemes for Legal Case-based Reasoning. Jurix 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference Annual Conference, volume 165 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 139-149. IOS Press, December 2007.
• A. Wyner, T. Bench-Capon and K. Atkinson. Arguments, Values and Baseballs:  Representation of Popov v. Hayashi. Jurix 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference Annual Conference, volume 165 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 151-160. IOS Press, December 2007.

2006

• Gordon, T. F., and Walton, D. Pierson vs. Post revisted — a reconstruction using the Carneades Argumentation Framework. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 06) (Liverpool, 2006), P. E. Dunne and T. Bench-Capon, Eds., IOS Press.
• Gordon, T. F., and Walton, D. The Carneades argumentation framework — using presumptions and exceptions to model critical questions. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 06) (Liverpool, September 2006), P. E. Dunne, Ed.
• Joost Breuker, Alexander Boer, Rinke Hoekstra, and Kasper van den Berg. Developing content for LKIF: Ontologies and frameworks for legal reasoning. In Tom M. van Engers, editor, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Jurix 2006: The Nineteenth Annual Conference, volume 152 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 169-174. IOS Press, December 2006.