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21Semiotic Aspects in Patent InterpretationInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 32 (2): 359-389. 2019.This paper discusses the semiotic dimension of patent interpretation. Patent documents are at the same time disclosure of information and a granting of rights. The claim section expresses the granted rights. In this paper, we view the claims as signs that express the granted rights. The semantics to interpret the signs is given by the all-elements rule, as pragmatics. The description and drawings sections of the patent document provide metapragmatics in the form of lexicon and syntax to help the…Read more
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67Ontologies of professional legal knowledge as the basis for intelligent IT support for judgesArtificial Intelligence and Law 12 (4): 359-378. 2004.In this paper, we describe the use of legal ontologies as a basis to improve IT support for professional judges. As opposed to most legal ontologies designed so far, which are mostly based on dogmatic and normative knowledge, we emphasize the importance of professional knowledge and experience as an important pillar for constructing the ontology. We describe an intelligent FAQ system for junior judges that intensively use the ontology
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7Per una cultura democràtica: les dimensions polítiques de la moral contemporània: homenatge al Prof. J.L.L. Aranguren, 5 de novembre-11 de desembre de 1996 (edited book, review)Fundació Caixa de Sabadell. 1997.
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4Catalan Identities: Literature, Social Commitment, and Political Engagement in the 20th CenturyIn Pompeu Casanovas, Montserrat Corretger & Vicent Salvador (eds.), The Rise of Catalan Identity: Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2019.What does it mean to write in Catalan? What does ‘Catalan CultureCatalan’ mean? And what does it mean to build a literary oeuvre? The life trajectories of the authors analysed in this volume enable us to explore these questions from the inside. Catalan CultureCatalan and language originated in the early Middle Ages. This introductory chapter takes a modern stance and analyses the development of linguistic, literary and social IdentitySocial in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
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1Catalan Identities: Language, Power and Political Pactism from a Historical PerspectiveIn Pompeu Casanovas, Montserrat Corretger & Vicent Salvador (eds.), The Rise of Catalan Identity: Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century, Springer Verlag. pp. 19-48. 2019.In this chapter, we distinguish between three kinds Pactisme —early, late and political pactism—to frame the construction of institutional IdentityInstitutional in the Catalan CultureCatalan from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. How is the lack of political Power that has characterised contemporary Catalonia related to the Engagement with the language which characterises much of Catalan LiteratureCatalan from the 20th century? This chapter links the answer to this question to the morphology …Read more
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3Linked Democracy: Foundations, Tools, and ApplicationsSpringer Verlag. 2019.This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed linked data, licensed linguistic linked data, right expression languages, semantic web regulatory mode…Read more
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5The Rise of Catalan Identity: Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots. It focuses on the rise of Catalan cultural, national and linguistic identity in the 20th century. What is happening in Catalonia? What lies behind its political conflicts? Catalan identity has been evolving for centuries, starting in early medieval ages. It is not a modern phenomenon. The emergence of imperial Spain in the 16 c. and the French Ancien Régime in the 17 c. correlates with …Read more
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10Gearing up for Catalan Intellectual History : JOCIH's TwistJournal of Catalan Intellectual History 11 1-14. 2017.This article can be read as an Editorial for the first issue of the Journal of Catalan Intellectual History (JOCIH) in its new stage at de Gruyter Open. It offers, first, a methodical review of the concept, roles, and trends of intellectual history in the 20th century. Next, it looks into the particular Catalan tradition, historiography, and cultural analysis to position the aim and the role of the Journal with regard to similar initiatives. It tries to give an answer to the crisis of intellectu…Read more
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26Relationships between empirical and philosophical approaches to the law have not been always peaceful. Agreement seems the most natural way to build up and implementing regulations and justice within human-machine inter-faces (natural and artificial societies), and might help to bridge the gap between both theoretical approaches. Recent researches on relational law, relational jus-tice, crowdsourcing, regulatory systems and regulatory models are introduced. These concepts need further clarificat…Read more
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Un programa implícit en el pensament polític de BalmesEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 56 7-27. 2016.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v56-casanovas.
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19Gearing up for Catalan Intellectual History : JOCIH's TwistJournal of Catalan Intellectual History 11 1-14. 2017.This article can be read as an Editorial for the first issue of the Journal of Catalan Intellectual History (JOCIH) in its new stage at de Gruyter Open. It offers, first, a methodical review of the concept, roles, and trends of intellectual history in the 20th century. Next, it looks into the particular Catalan tradition, historiography, and cultural analysis to position the aim and the role of the Journal with regard to similar initiatives. It tries to give an answer to the crisis of intellectu…Read more
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38Semantic Web Regulatory Models: Why Ethics MatterPhilosophy and Technology 28 (1): 33-55. 2015.The notion of validity fulfils a crucial role in legal theory. In the emerging Web 3.0, Semantic Web languages, legal ontologies, and normative multi-agent systems are designed to cover new regulatory needs. Conceptual models for complex regulatory systems shape the characteristic features of rules, norms, and principles in different ways. This article outlines one of such multilayered governance models, designed for the CAPER platform, and offers a definition of Semantic Web Regulatory Models .…Read more
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7Trends in legal knowledge: the semantic web and the regulation of electronic social systems: papers from the B-4 workshop on artificial intelligence and law, May 25th- 27th 2005: XXII World Congress of philosophy IVR '05 Granada, May 24th-29th 2005 (edited book, review)European Press Academic. 2007.
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74OPJK and DILIGENT: Ontology modeling in a distributed environment (review)Artificial Intelligence and Law 15 (2): 171-186. 2007.In the legal domain, ontologies enjoy quite some reputation as a way to model normative knowledge about laws and jurisprudence. This paper describes the methodology followed when developing the ontology used by the second version of the prototype Iuriservice, a web-based intelligent FAQ for judicial use. This modeling methodology has had two important requirements: on the one hand, the ontology needed to be extracted from a repository of professional judicial knowledge (containing nearly 800 que…Read more