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Research Seminar Series
‘Textual Processing of Legal Cases’ - Dr. Adam Zachary Wyner (http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/)
Dr. Wyner does research in Legal Informatics - the application of computational analysis, techniques, and tools to the law. In the talk, Dr. Wyner discusses recent dramatic changes in the ''environment'' of legal information due to economic, technological, and policy developments, which increasingly require that legal professionals, academics, and students engage with and adapt to the changing environment. The talk focuses on a tool that can be used in a Legal Methods course to support semantic analysis of legal opinions, highlighting comparisons and contrasts for discussion, as well as to extract the semantic information. The result is a corpus of legal cases with highly detailed semantic annotations that can be shared on the Internet, grown, and queried in novel ways - a Legal Semantic Web. The activity and the result are both beyond what is currently available from legal information providers, e.g. Lexis-Nexis or ThomsonReuters. More generally, the objective of the talk is to develop interdisciplinary research between Computing and Law.
- Speaker
- Dr. Adam Zachary
- Venue
- Taylor A36