Legal atlas: access to legal sources through maps
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Separating law from geography in GIS-based eGovernment services
Artificial Intelligence and Law - AI & law in eGovernment and eDemocracy part II
Ontology Representation: Design Patterns and Ontologies that Make Sense - Volume 197 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument: A Study of Defeasible Reasoning in Law
Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument: A Study of Defeasible Reasoning in Law
Ontological analysis of terrain data
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications
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Land use regulations are an important but often underrated legal domain. In densely populated regions such as the Netherlands, spatial plans have a profound impact on both (local) governments and citizens. This paper describes our work on improving access to legislation with a spatial extension. Using Semantic Web technology we combine distributed geospatial data, textual data and controlled vocabularies to support users in answering questions such as "What activity is allowed here?". Spatial norms are represented using OWL 2 in a way that enables intuitive visualisation of their effects: map based legal case assessment. Users can represent a (simple) case by selecting or drawing an area on the map. Given a designation for that area, the system can assess whether this is allowed or not. The same solution also enables the comparison of two or more sets of spatial norms that govern the same region.