Emile de Maat of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam has posted Teaching the Computer to Read Legal Text, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. de Maat describes the natural language processing techniques used at the Leibniz CenterRead… Read more »
The application deadline has been extended to 23 July 2010 for the 2010 LEX Summer School, to be held 6-11 September 2010 at the University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, in Ravenna, Italy. The theme of the school is “Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web.” Here is a description of the curriculum: The school aimsRead… Read more »
Full text XML, TIFF images, and bibliographic data for U.S. patents and trademarks are now available for bulk download free of charge from Google, according to a June 2, 2010 press release from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark information includes data from 1870 to present, and the patent information includes dataRead… Read more »
The 2010 World eParliament Report is now available. The report — produced by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament — presents the results of a 2009 survey “of 264 chambers of unicameral and bicameral parliaments in 188 countries and [] two regional parliaments. 134 responses were received […].” The survey addressed six aspects ofRead… Read more »
Professor Monica Palmirani of Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu» and Centro Interdipartimentale de Ricerca in Storia del Diritto e Informatica Giuridica (CIRSFID) presented a lecture entitled Legal Resources Modelling in the Semantic Web for Implementing eGov on 11 November 2009 at CodeX: The Stanford University Center for Computers and Law, inRead… Read more »
A new, second beta version of the Stand Alone Wayfarer for the National Information Exchange Model — abbreviated NIEM SAW — has been released on the Website of the National Center for State Courts. According to consultant Tom Carlson, NIEM SAW is a tool for exploring and searching NIEM, an XML data interchange standard forRead… Read more »
Registration is now open for the LEX 2010 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web (formerly the Legislative XML Summer School), to be held 6-11 September 2010, at the University of Bologna’s campus in Ravenna, Italy. The summer school lasts 6 days and “is organized in two courses:” “A Basic Course providing anRead… Read more »
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School, and the Cornell University Law Library have entered into a partnership to assess methods for making the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) available in XML. According to GPO’s press release, the LII “will convert various titles into XMLRead… Read more »
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for 2007-2009 is now available for bulk download in XML from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) FDsys. Click here for the user guide. Why is this of potential interest to the legal community? First, attorneys, legal IT personnel, and law librarians can download the CFR in XML andRead… Read more »