The e-Sentencias Prototype: A Procedural Ontology for Legal Multimedia Applications in the Spanish Civil Courts

  • Authors:

  • Pompeu Casanovas;Xavier Binefa;Ciro Gracia;Emma Teodoro;Núria Galera;Mercedes Blázquez;Marta Poblet;Jordi Carrabina;Màrius Monton;Carlos Montero;Javier Serrano;José Manuel López-Cobo

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Law and Tecnology, UAB, Spain, {Pompeu.Casanovas, Emma.Teodoro, Nuria.Casellas, Nuria.Galera}@uab.cat;Digital Video Understanding Group, ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Ciro.Gracia, Xavier.Binefa}@uab.cat;Digital Video Understanding Group, ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Ciro.Gracia, Xavier.Binefa}@uab.cat;Institute of Law and Tecnology, UAB, Spain, {Pompeu.Casanovas, Emma.Teodoro, Nuria.Casellas, Nuria.Galera}@uab.cat;Institute of Law and Tecnology, UAB, Spain, {Pompeu.Casanovas, Emma.Teodoro, Nuria.Casellas, Nuria.Galera}@uab.cat;intelligent Software Components, (iSOCO), Madrid, Spain, {ozelin, mercedes}@isoco.com;Institute of Law and Tecnology, UAB, Spain, marta.poblet@uab.cat;Laboratory for HW/SW Prototypes and Solutions, (CEPHIS), ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Jordi.Carrabina, Marius.Monton, Carlos.Montero, Javier.Serrano}@uab.cat;Laboratory for HW/SW Prototypes and Solutions, (CEPHIS), ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Jordi.Carrabina, Marius.Monton, Carlos.Montero, Javier.Serrano}@uab.cat;Laboratory for HW/SW Prototypes and Solutions, (CEPHIS), ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Jordi.Carrabina, Marius.Monton, Carlos.Montero, Javier.Serrano}@uab.cat;Laboratory for HW/SW Prototypes and Solutions, (CEPHIS), ETSE, UAB, Spain, {Jordi.Carrabina, Marius.Monton, Carlos.Montero, Javier.Serrano}@uab.cat;intelligent Software Components, (iSOCO), Madrid, Spain, {ozelin, mercedes}@isoco.com

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Channelling the Legal Information Flood
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Search, retrieval, and management of multimedia contents are challenging tasks for users and researchers alike. We introduce a software-hardware system for the global management of the multimedia contents produced by Spanish Civil Courts. The ultimate goal is to obtain an automatic classification of images and segments of the audiovisual records that, coupled with textual semantics, allows an efficient navigation and retrieval of judicial documents and additional legal sources. This paper describes our knowledge acquisition process, sets a typology of Spanish Civil hearings as performed in practice, and a preliminary procedural ontology at its actual stage of development (e-Sentencias ontology). A discussion on procedural, contextual and multimedia ontologies is also provided.