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Enrico Francesconi
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Technologies for European Integration |
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Standards-based Interoperability of Legal Information Systems |
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Foreword by Giovanni Sartor, Tom van Engers, Caterina Lupo
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The processes of political, social and economic integration of European Union
member states are causing a growing interest in exchanging legal information
knowledge at national and trans-national levels.
In this context the use of document standards and Semantic Web technologies
represents a pre-condition for the development of services oriented to legislators, to
legal information providers as well as to legal experts, with the aim of enhanching the
quality and accessibility of legal information in a distributed environment.
This work gives an overview of the initiatives on legislative standards at national and
European levels, as well as similar trends in extra-European countries, along with
technical details of the various activities dealing with the definition of legal standards
and the development of software tools for managing legislation.
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Enrico Francesconi
graduated in Electronic Engineering, received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Computer Science Department (DSI) of the University of
Florence. In 2002 he joined the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques
of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR). His main research interests
include knowledge representation, legal standards, legal drafting, artificial intelligence
techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction. He is a member
of the Italian and European working groups establishing XML and URI standards for
legislation. He has been involved in various projects within the eParticipation framework
(DG Information Society & Media) of the European Commission and for the Office for
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