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Retrieval of Case Law to
Provide Layman with Information about Liability: Preliminary Results of the
BEST-projectE.M. Uijttenbroek, A.R. Lodder, Michel CA
Klein, Gwen R Wildeboer, W. van Steenbergen, Rory SL Sie, P.E.M. Huygen, and
F. van Harmelen, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 123. Springer,
eds. casan edition, 2008.
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This paper
describes the experiments carried out in the context of the BEST-project, an
interdisciplinary project with researchers from the Law faculty and the AI
department of the VU University Amsterdam. The aim of the project is to provide
laymen with information about their legal position in a liability case, based
on retrieved case law. The process basically comes down to (1) analyzing the
input of a layman in terms of a layman ontology, (2) mapping this ontology to a
legal ontology, (3) retrieve relevant case law based, and finally (4) present
the results in a comprehensible way to the layman. This paper describes the experiments undertaken regarding step 4,
and in particular step 3.
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