Publications
This page contains references and links to publications produced during the BEST project.
Deliverables
BestMap Vocabulary Mapping Ontology
The BestMap ontology provides vocabulary and definitions that allow the specification of many-to-many mappings between SKOS vocabularies. Visit this page for more information on BestMap. [ download ]BestPortal (experimental)
The BestPortal allows laymen to search relevant verdicts given a case description in laymen terms. It also allows legal experts to specify complex mappings between laymen terms and a tort vocabulary. [ visit ]Tort Vocabulary
The Tort vocabulary is a SKOS vocabulary for annotating verdicts in the domain of disputes related to damage [ download ]Laymen Vocabulary
The Laymen vocabulary is a SKOS vocabulary for annotating cases in the domain of disputes related to damage [ download ]Verdicts Resource
The verdicts resource is a linked-data RDF/OWL dump of the rechtspraak.nl database of verdicts used in the experimental BEST portal. [ download ]A light-weight legal ontology for damage disputes (DEPRECATED)
Version 1.1, date:2008-08-25 [ download ]Six-months report
The first periodic report describes the choices made and sketches a plan for the upcoming months. [ download ]
Presentations
- Overzicht BEST Project. NWO Site Visit Rinke Hoekstra, Amsterdam, January 28, 2010.
View more presentations from Rinke Hoekstra. - BestPortal: lessons Learned in Lightweight Semantic Access to Court Proceedings Rinke Hoekstra, Jurix 2009 conference, Rotterdam, December 17th, 2009.
View more presentations from Rinke Hoekstra. - BestPortal and BestMap: lessons Learned in Lightweight Semantic Access to Court Proceedings Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law, internal meeting, Amsterdam, December 3rd, 2009.
View more presentations from Rinke Hoekstra. - BestMap: Context-Aware SKOS Vocabulary Mappings in OWL 2 Rinke Hoekstra, OWL:Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2009), Chantilly, VA, October 24th, 2009.
View more presentations from Rinke Hoekstra. - Overzicht BEST Project. Rinke Hoekstra, BEST Token bijeenkomst Den Haag, 23 June 2009. [ slides ]
- Supporting Layman in Finding Relevant Court Decisions in the BEST-project. Michel Klein, NWO Symposium Leiden, March 31th, 2006. [ slides ]
- The BEST-Project - short project presentation. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, NWO Symposium Eindhoven, March 18th, 2005. [ slides ]
- How to support parties in ODR best? Fundamental and practical guidelines on the use of IT in online dispute resolution. Arno R. Lodder, TILT symposium Tilburg, December 7th, 2004. [ slides ]
Papers
- Rinke Hoekstra. BestPortal: Lessons learned in lightweight semantic access to court proceedings. In Guido Governatori, editor, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2009), Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Rotterdam, December 2009. Jurix, IOS Press.
- Rinke Hoekstra. BestMap: Context-aware SKOS vocabulary mappings in OWL 2. In Proceedings of OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2009), 2009. Technical Paper.
- Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, A.R. Lodder, Michel CA Klein, Gwen R Wildeboer, W. van Steenbergen, Rory LL Sie, P.E.M. Huygen, and F. van Harmelen. Retrieval of Case Law to Provide Layman with Information about Liability: Preliminary Results of the BEST-project Lecture Notes in Computer Science 123. Springer, eds. casan edition, 2008. [ download ]
- Gwen R Wildeboer, Michel CA Klein, and Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek Explaining the Relevance of Court Decisions to Laymen In JURIX 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference, Frontiers in AI and applications vol. 165, pages 129-138. JURX, IOS Press, 2007, Eds. Lodder/Mommers., Leiden, December 12-15 2007 [ download ]
- Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Arno R. Lodder. Hoe breng je rechtsgevoel in een juridisch redeneer- en beslissysteem? Over de invloed van cognitie op juridisch redeneren 'Alles Afwegende....' Bijdragen aan het Vijfde Symposium Juridische Argumentatie, Rotterdam, 22 Juni 2007.
- Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Michel C.A. Klein, Arno R. Lodder, Frank van Harmelen. Research abstracts 1: Case law retrieval by concept search and visualization Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, Stanford, June 04 - 08, 2007. [ download ]
- Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Arno R. Lodder. The influence of motives and styles in mediation on online dispute resolution Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution / ICAIL 2007, Palo Alto, June 8 2007. [ download ]
- Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek. Optimale mediation? Het belang van het bepalen van BATNA's met behulp van informatietechnologie Tijdschrift voor Mediation, (4):97-98, 2006. [ download ]
- Michel C.A. Klein, Wouter van Steenbergen, Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Arno R. Lodder, Frank van Harmelen. Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law Proceedings of JURIX 2006, Paris, December 7-9th 2006. [ draft ]
- Michel Klein, Wouter van Steenbergen, Emiel Bruijntjes, Frank van Harmelen and Arno R. Lodder. Supporting Layman in Finding Relevant Court Decisions in the BEST-project NWO TOKEN Symposium 2006, Leiden, March 31, 2006. [ download ]
- Wouter van Steenbergen Rationalizing Dispute Resolution: From best alternative to the most likely one. Proceedings 3rd ODR workshop, Brussels, December 8-10, 2005. [ download ]
- Ronny van Laarschot, Wouter van Steenbergen, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Arno R. Lodder and Frank van Harmelen. The Legal Concepts and the Layman's Terms. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, IOS Press, Brussels, December 8-10, 2005. [ download ]
- Ronny van Laarschot. Ontology-based knowledge modelling in Dutch civil law. MSc Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 2005. [ download ]
- Wouter van Steenbergen. Doorverwijzing naar mediation vanuit de rechtspraak: Contradictio in terminis of een goede manier om de rechterlijke macht te ontlasten? Nederlands Juristen Blad (NJB), NJB (45):2364-2366 (in Dutch). [ download ]
Miscellanea
- Interview by Colin Rule about research in Online Dispute Resolution. Arno Lodder, During the Cyberweek, September 27, 2006. [ mp3 ]
- The website www.staikinmijnrecht.nl, in order to gather data about laymen terminology, Visit the website, Online since November 27, 2007.