Case-frames as contextual mappings to case-law in BestPortal. Hoekstra, R., Lodder, A., & van Harmelen, F. In Proceedings of the 23rd International JURIX conference, 2010.
Case-frames as contextual mappings to case-law in BestPortal [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper introduces case frames as a way to provide more meaningful structure to vocabulary mappings used to bridge the gap between laymen and legal descriptions of court proceedings. Case frames both reduce the ambiguity of queries and improve the ability of users to formulate good quality queries. We extend the BestMap ontology with a formalisation of case frame based mappings in OWL 2, present a new version of BestPortal, and show how case frames impact query results compared to simple contextual mappings and a direct fulltext search.

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