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<div align="center">Call for contributions</div>
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<div align="center">For a SPECIAL ISSUE of the</div>
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<div align="center">(Aldo Gangemi (ISTC/CNR), Daniela Tiscornia
(ITTIG/CNR), Italy, guest editors)</div>
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Legal ontologies are an important and fruitful field of research for
people<br>
working in legal information systems. They are also an interesting
topic<br>
for scientists who traditionally do not belong to the AI and Law
Community,<br>
such as those who develop standards, ontologies, or methodologies for
information<br>
exchange (as in Semantic Web initiatives), as well as those studying
the social<br>
behaviour of electronic agents and of multiple agents interaction,
will find this<br>
topic of interest.<br>
However, the definition of the components and basic features of an
ontology for<br>
law still needs solid theoretical grounds, which should be acceptable
for<br>
legal philosophers and theorists. The aim of the issue is to provide
an<br>
investigation of the state of the art in the field, and to collect
contributions<br>
from different perspectives and from various experienced experts, with
the goal<br>
of identifying an international community aimed at reaching a common
methodology.<br>
Authors are strongly encouraged to present extended examples
illustrating how<br>
their ontologies are used.<br>
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As pointers to some previous or current initiatives in the field, the
Legont<br>
Workshops [http://www.lri.jur.uva.nl/jurix2001/legont2001.htm] and
the<br>
LegOntoWeb Working Group within the OntoWeb IST Thematic Network</div>
<div>[http://ontology.ip.rm.cnr.it/legontoweb.html] should be
mentioned.</div>
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Topics of interest may include:<br>
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General:<br>
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Ontologies for general legal concepts</div>
<div>Ontologies for specific legal domains</div>
<div>Applications of legal ontologies<br>
Reasoning with legal ontologies<br>
Languages and tools for representing legal ontologies<br>
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Task-oriented:<br>
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NLP techniques for legal ontology learning<br>
Ontologies and legal metadata standards<br>
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Specific:<br>
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Ontological characterization of norms and norm dynamics<br>
Ontology of legal persons and institutions<br>
Reality and the Law<br>
Epistemology vs. ontology in the legal domain<br>
Ontological treatment of legal open-textured concepts<br>
Ontologies for ethical concepts and specific domains of professional
ethics<br>
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Submission<br>
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Contributions should be submitted via e-mail to one of the two editors
by<br>
March 30, 2003.<br>
<br>
Aldo Gangemi</div>
<div>Laboratory for Applied Ontology</div>
<div>ISTC-CNR (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione)<br>
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research
Council<br>
Viale Marx 15<br>
00137 Roma Italy<br>
tel +39.06.86090249<br>
fax +39.06.824737<br>
mailto://gangemi@ip.rm.cnr.it</div>
<div>mailto://gangemi@acm.org<br>
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Daniela Tiscornia<br>
ITTIG-CNR (Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell'Informazione
Giuridica)<br>
Institute of Legal Information Theory and Technologies, National
Research Council<br>
via Panciatichi, 56/16<br>
50127 Firenze Italy<br>
tel +39.055.4399632<br>
fax +39.055.4221637</div>
<div>mailto://tiscornia@idg.fi.cnr.it</div>
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Aldo Gangemi</div>
<div>Research Scientist</div>
<div>Laboratory for Applied Ontology</div>
<div>ISTC-CNR (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della
Cognizione)</div>
<div>Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, C.N.R.<br>
Viale Marx 15, 00137<br>
Roma Italy<br>
+3906.86090249<br>
+3906.824737 (fax)<br>
mailto://gangemi@ip.rm.cnr.it<br>
mailto://gangemi@acm.org<br>
http://ontology.ip.rm.cnr.it</div>
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