Case Frames as Contextual Mappings to Case Law in BestPortal

Authors:
Rinke Hoekstra;Arno Lodder;Frank van Harmelen
Affiliations:
AI Department, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Computer Law Institute, Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands;AI Department, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Conference
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper introduces case frames as a way to provide a more meaningful structure to vocabulary mappings used to bridge the gap between laymen and legal descriptions of court proceedings. Case frames both reduce the ambiguity of queries, and improve the ability of users to formulate good quality queries. We extend the BestMap ontology with a formalisation of case frame based mappings in OWL 2, present a new version of BestPortal, and show how case frames impact retrieval results compared to simple contextual mappings and a direct fulltext search.