Jesus Contreras

Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies | IMDEA · IMDEA-Software

(this is an upload of the pre-publication) In this paper, we provide a practical insight into how innovation takes place in Europe, and with particular reference to Spain. Our objective is to contrast various types of information including (i) European R&D, innovation policy and activities (ii) related R&D KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) as publi...

Knowledge Management technologies have been around for a while, and while their growth has been increasing lately, it still lacks the current traction that other related technologies are experiencing. One of the hardest bottlenecks Knowledge Management systems currently face are the hurdles that users face, reducing their interest and finally disco...

Nowadays, especially after the recent financial downturn, companies are looking for much more efficient and creative business processes. They need to place better solutions in the market in a less time with less cost. There is a general intuition that communication and collaboration, especially mixed with Web 2.0 approach within companies and ecosy...

Nowadays, especially after the recent financial downturn, companies are looking for much more efficient business processes. They need to better solutions place in the market in a less time with less cost. There is a general intuition that knowledge management or collaboration, especially mixed with Web 2.0 approach within companies and ecosystems,...

Knowledge Management systems are one of the key strategies that allow companies to fully tap into their collective knowledge. However, two main entry barriers currently limit the potential of this approach: i) the hurdles employees encounter discouraging them from a strong and active participation (knowledge providing) and ii) the lack of truly evo...

In the past decade, significant budgets have been invested in the development of Semantic Technologies. In this chapter, relevant factors are laid out for semantic technology adoption and a framework is provided for describing and understanding the value proposition of semantic technology from a business point of view. An overview will be shown of...

In recent years, Web 2.0 has achieved a key role in the Internet community and concepts such as “the wisdom of crowds” have grown in importance in the enterprise context. Companies are adopting this paradigm for their internal processes in the so-called Enterprise 2.0. Semantic technology seems to be essential for its successful adoption with a pos...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in Knowledge Management systems where end-users are supposed to actively participate is precisely the hurdles they encounter that discourage them for keeping involved. On the other hand, the so-called Web 2.0, where users participate in an active manner, willingly generating new content, has been adopted by companies...

Offering public access to efficient transactional stock market functionalities is of interest to all banks and bank users. Traditional service oriented architecture (SOA) technology succeeds at providing reasonable, good Web-based brokerage solutions, but may lack extensibility possibilities. By introducing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as a way to i...

Offering public access to efficient transactional stock market functionalities is of interest to all banks and bank users. Traditional service oriented architecture (SOA) technology succeeds at providing reasonable, good Web-based brokerage solutions, but may lack extensibility possibilities. By introducing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as a way to i...

Offering public access to efficient transactional stock market functionalities is of interest to all banks and bank users. Traditional service oriented architecture (SOA) technology succeeds at providing reasonable, good Web-based brokerage solutions, but may lack extensibility possibilities. By introducing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as a way to i...

An iFAQ (intelligent Frequently Asked Questions) system designed to provide assistance to young judges at their first appointment is described. The development and use of legal domain ontologies is described. The functionality of the system is set out, along with the system architecture. The methodology and results of a system evaluation are also r...

Offering public access to efficient transactional stock market functionalities is of interest to all banks and bank users. Traditional service oriented architecture (SOA) technology succeeds at providing reasonable, good Web-based brokerage solutions, but may lack extensibility possibilities. By introducing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as a way to i...

Offering public access to efficient transactional stock market functionalities is of interest to all banks and bank users. Traditional service oriented architecture (SOA) technology succeeds at providing reasonable, good Web-based brokerage solutions, but may lack extensibility possibilities. By introducing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as a way to i...

The paper describes, probably the largest initiative for the construction of an ontology that compiles the knowledge around the cultural heritage related to a specific region — Cantabria in Spain. As a basis for the schema, we chose the RDF representation of CIDOC CRM (v. 4.2), and integrated complementary models, such as FRBRoo, Dublin Core, or pr...

The semantic Web has been enjoying significant investment, mostly through research but to a lesser extent through start-ups and commercial projects. The World Wide Web Consortium maintains a Web page for its Semantic Web Education and Outreach interest Group. Semantic Web technology aims to address the shortcomings of the HTML based Web, using desc...

The Iuriservice application offers a semantically enabled FAQ search system and case law browser for the Spanish judges in their first appointment. The system is now at the first stage of implementation in the Spanish Judicial School. Users may input questions to the system in natural language to obtain access to a database of experience-based answ...

In recent years, multiple visualization applications have been developed using Semantic Web technologies. However, most of these applications do not con- sider ontology visualization through browsers. Some applications emerge with new graphical representation languages designed for the Web, such as X3D and SVG, etc. Existing graphical ontology visu...

In this chapter we describe the architecture of a knowledge management system for the Spanish judicial domain, Iuriservice, an i-FAQ for judicial use contain- ing a repository of professional judicial knowledge. This system has been developed as part of the IST project SEKT (IST-2003-506826) and its main objective is to show that semantic technolog...

Concept and main features of ontologies, together with its relationship with information retrieval and semantic web. The installation and proper use of the program Protégé. Exemplified development of an ontology through Competency Questions.

The introduction of information technologies in the news industry has marked a new evolutionary cycle in the journalistic activity. The creation of new infrastructures, protocols and exchange standards for the automatic or on-demand distribution and/or sale of information packages through different

Web services and service oriented architectures present a new approach to application integration. While it is reasonable inside an enterprise, it has certain deficiencies when applied in a B2B environment. This deficiencies apply to the discovery, invocation and composition phases, which require considerable manual effort. In the paper, we show on...

The Royal Institute Elcano (Real Instituto Elcano) in Spain is a prestigious independent political institute whose mission is to comment on the political situation in the world focusing on its relation to Spain. As part of its dissemination strategy it operates a public website. In this paper we present and evaluate the application of a semantic se...

Purpose The paper shows how access to knowledge can be enhanced by using a set of innovative approaches and technologies based upon the Semantic Web. Approach Emerging trends in knowledge access are considered followed by a description of how ontologies and semantics can contribute. A set of tools are then presented which are based upon Semantic We...

Purpose In this paper we describe the process of developing and implementing a knowledge management system for the Spanish judicial domain. Spanish judges, especially newly‐recruited ones, hold a solid background of theoretical legal knowledge, but are much less familiar with the judicial knowledge of the more senior judges acquired from everyday p...

In this paper, we describe the use of legal ontologies as a basis to improve IT support for professional judges. In the ontology, 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 uses the ontology.

The aim of this Document is to offer an overview of the work done during the first year of the research in the EU Project SEKT by the UAB legal team and the iSOCO engineers. The cooperation between the two teams has produced the following results: (i) a reliable description of the Spanish and judicial contexts, stemming from 2004 surveys and field...

The aim of this deliverable is to describe the final version of the visualisation component, a component developed for ontology visualisation in 3D. In this document we describe the integration of the component with several SEKT technologies (KAON2 and PROTON) and also other aspects related with the running of the component.

IntroductionProfile of the UsersOntologies for Legal KnowledgeArchitectureConclusions References

The aim of this deliverable is to describe the status of Legal Case Study Prototype at the end of the second year of the project. This document introduces the work done by iSOCO engineers and the UAB team, in collaboration with the JSI team. The cooperation between these teams has produced the following results: (i) the evolution of the Expert Syst...

This paper shows the ontology development for the second version of the prototype Iuriservice II, an i-FAQ for judicial use containing a repository of professional judicial knowledge. We define the epistemological and ontological levels as separate issues. The domain and middle-out ontology will be connected to the SEKT top and upper level ontology...

8 pages, 6 figures.-- Contributed to: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (Carlos III University Madrid, Sep 12-15, 2005). The importance for Web applications to reach all kind of potential users and customers is being stressed by companies and public sectors. The standardization initiative for Web applications, WAI an...

ONTO-H is a semi-automatic collaborative tool for the semantic annotation of documents, built as a Protégé 3.0 tab plug-in. Among its multiple functionalities aimed at easing the document annotation process, ONTO-H uses a rule-based system to create cascading annotations out from a single drag and drop operation from a part of a document into an al...

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. W...

In this paper, we present a Notification Agent designed and implemented using Semantic Web Services. The Notification Agent manages alerts when critical financial situations arise discovering and selecting notification services. This agent applies open research results on the Semantic Web Services technologies including on-the-fly composition based...

The Royal Institute Elcano (Real Instituto Elcano) in Spain is a prestigious independent political institute whose mission is to comment on the political situation in the world focusing on its relation to Spain. As part of its dissemination strategy it operates a public website. The online content can be accessed by navigating through categories or...

This paper describes the role natural language processing (NLP) can play for multimedia applications. As an example of such an application, we present an approach dealing with the conceptual indexing of soccer videos which the help of structured information automatically extracted by NLP tools from multiple sources of information relating to video...

This paper describes a semantic portal on the domain of International Affairs. This application is an integration of several technologies in the field of the Semantic Web in a complex project. We describe an approach, tools and techniques that allow building a semantic portal, where access is based on the meaning of concepts and relations of the In...

Newspaper archives are a fundamental working tool for editorial teams. Their exploitation in digital format through the web, and the provision of technology to make this possible, are also important businesses today. The volume of archive contents, and the complexity of human teams that create and maintain them, give rise to diverse management diff...

Online cultural archives represent vast amounts of interesting and useful information. During the last decades huge amounts of literature works have been scanned to provide better access to Humanities researchers and teachers. Was the problem 20 years ago one of scarceness of information (precious originals only to consult in major libraries), toda...

SEKT stands for Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies (EU-IST Project IST-2003-506826). Using previous and recently accomplished work on judi-cial and transnational lawyering prototypes (IURISERVICE and NETCASE Projects), we define an ontology of professional legal knowledge (OPLK) as a regular base for a multilayered architecture. The main i...

La Web Semántica puede convertirse en la siguiente revolución en la sociedad de la información, comparable con la reciente popularización de la web e Internet. La Web Semántica ofrece contenido online semánticamente anotado de manera formal, posibilitando así su procesamiento automático mediante software. Uno de los retos de esta web es la disponib...

Within the Esperonto project, an integration of NLP, ontologies and other knowledge bases, is being performed with the goal to implement a semantic annotation service that upgrades the actual Web towards the emerging Semantic Web. Research is being currently conducted on how to apply the Esperonto semantic annotation service to text material associ...

Globalization and international trade have transformed the delivery of transnational legal services worldwide. Law firms face market competition through a variety of strategies, ranging from expansion in size, specialization of services, international alliances or creation of networks. Transnational legal networks (TLN) have emerged as one of those...

In this paper, we describe the use of legal ontologies as a basis to improve IT support for professional judges. In the ontology, 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 uses the ontology.

In order for organizations to survive on increasingly competitive and global markets, adequate management of intellectual capital is essential. Although increasingly more information is found in electronic formats, turning this information into valuable knowledge is still the responsibility of people by applying it in professional situations to gen...

The Semantic Web has attracted a diverse, but significant, community of researchers, institutes and companies, all sharing the belief that one day it will have as big an impact on life as currently the WWW/Internet has We share that vision, based on the ever-increaseing need to reduce information overload, and to increase task delegation to softwar...

In order for organizations to survive on increasingly competitive and global markets, adequate management of intellectual capital is essential. Although increasingly more information is found in electronic formats, turning this information into valuable knowledge is still the responsibility of people by applying it in professional situations to gen...

Resumen: En esta presentación describimos el uso de ontologías legales como base para la mejora del soporte para jueces. El uso de la tecnología de procesamiento de lenguaje natural permite obtener respuestas a los jóvenes jueces en tiempo real y mejorar así su trabajo día a día. Abstract: We present an intelligent FAQ system for junior judges that...

Semantic Search and Ontologies are one of the key technologies that can improve content management. Nonetheless, in order to be widely diffused, these technologies lack real-time capabilities, that speed up both the indexing and the retrieval processes. This contribution presents the approach and strategy proposed to tackle this problem, within the...

En esta presentación describimos el uso de ontologías legales como base para la mejora del soporte para jueces. El uso de la tecnología de procesamiento de lenguaje natural permite obtener respuestas a los jóvenes jueces en tiempo real y mejorar así su trabajo día a día. We present an intelligent FAQ system for junior judges that intensively uses t...

A Top Quadrant report situates the Semantic Web within the current Innovation Wave of “Distributed Intelligence”. This is one of the main innovation waves of the last centuries including textile, railway, auto, computer, distributed intelligence (1997-2061) and nanotechnology (2007-2081). The Distributed Intelligence wave started in the late nineti...