Institut de Dret i Tecnologia

A student's team supervised by Dr. Núria Casellas wins Cornell University's Science Fair

Wednesday, 11 April 2012 10:08

Every year, Cornell’s Faculty of Computing and Information Science sponsors a "science fair called Bits on our Minds (BOOM). The exhibition showcases cutting-edge student research in all manner of digital realms, ranging from robotics to information retrieval to social applications to game design. This year, a team of Masters of Engineering students supervised by Dr. Núria Casellas presented their work on Legal Linked Data. The project won a BOOM Sponsor’s Award from Susquehanna International Group, a financial trading firm.

Call for candidates for Junior researcher vacancy

Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:19

The Centre for Social Studies (CES) – Associate Laboratory - of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) (www.ces.uc.pt) is offering a Junior Researcher position within the project “Menu for Justice - Towards an European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies” (156171-LLP-1-2009-1-IT-Erasmus ENWA), funded by the European Commission and coordinated by University of Bologna (Italy).

Deadline for applications: December 27th, 2011

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PhD position Artificial Intelligence and Forensic Science (Utrecht University)

Monday, 05 March 2012 10:32
This PhD position is part of the project "Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios" that is funded by the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research in the Forensic Science program (www.nwo.nl/forensicscience). The project is a cooperation of the University of Groningen (Department of Artificial Intelligence) andUtrecht University (Department of Information and Computing Sciences) supported by partners from forensic legal practice.
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User-generated knowledge through legal ontologies: how to bring the law into the Semantic Web 2.0

Monday, 19 December 2011 19:02

On December 6th, Meritxell Fernández successfully defended her PhD Thesis "User-generated knowledge through legal ontologies: how to bring the law into the Semantic Web 2.0", at the European University Institute of Florence. The thesis studies the impact of including different textual genres as sources for knowledge acquisition in legal ontology engineering. Results show a correspondence between discourse type and their input for the construction of the ontology. Whereas normative sources mostly contribute to the creation of the most general classes of the domain ontology, case descriptions provide subclasses and instances (in the form of named entities).