WP10 Case Study: Intelligent integrated decision support for legal professionals. Report PU

The aim of this document is to offer an overview of the work done during the first year of the research by the UAB legal team and the iSOCO engineers. The cooperation between the two teams has producedthe following results: (i) a reliable description of the Spanish and judicial contexts, stemming from 2004 surveys and field research at the court settings; (ii) a reliable description of the content of Spanish Legal databases; (iii) a preliminary textual analysis onlegal discourse findings; (iv) definition and epistemological bases for Ontologies of Professional Legal Knowledge(OPLK); (v) knowledge acquisition and ontology building of Iuriservice II(second prototype of an iFAQ assistant for judges attheir first appointment); (vi) use cases and software architecturedesign for the legal case study prototype, using NLP techniques, ontology models and ontology merging.