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

2009; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3233/978-1-58603-942-4-199

1879-8314

Pompeu Casanovas, Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gràcia, Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera, Mercedes Blázquez, Marta Poblet, Jordi Carrabina, Màrius Montón, Carlos Closa, Javier Serrano, José Manuel López-Cobo,

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

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.