EU-IST Project IST-2003-506826 SEKT

The aim of this deliverable is to describe the status of Legal Case Study Prototype at the end of the second year of the project. This document introduces the work done by iSOCO engineers and the UAB team, in collaboration with the JSI team. The cooperation between these teams has produced the following results: (i) the evolution of the Expert System from its preliminary version, introducing: TextGarden technology for domain detection, semantic distance technology (developed by iSOCO) for matching, integration plan with other SEKT technology (Visualization, KAON 2, GATE, TextGarden), ontology evolution, measurement plan; (ii) the description of Jurisprudence System scenarios; (iii) Legal Case Study Prototype integration in SEKT (SIP and SEKT technology), (iv) ontology generation and the Legal Case Study (Question Topic Ontology and Judicial Topic Ontology), (v) some effectiveness and efficiency measurements of current Prototype version; (vi) next steps of Prototype. Keyword list: legal case study, development

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