A semantic document management system for legal applications. (1st December 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Amato, Flora; Mazzeo, Antonino; Penta, Antonio; Picariello, Antonio
• Is Part Of: International journal of web and grid services. Volume 4:Number 3(2008)
• Page Start: 251
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2008-12-01
• Subjects: natural language processing -- NLP -- ontologies -- legal information systems -- semantics -- document management -- knowledge management -- resource description framework -- RDF statements -- e-government -- electronic government -- legal documents; Web services -- Periodicals; Computational grids (Computer systems) -- Periodicals; 006.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-1106

Abstract

Knowledge management in the legal domain has become a challenging issue for e-government-based applications. In this paper, we propose a core for a legal information system that manages a variety of hard paper documents and automatically transforms them into Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements for suitable indexing, retrieval and long-term preservation. Although we describe a general architecture that can be used for several legal application domains, our system is particularly suitable for the notary realm.