Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

MIREL RISE

Participants : Serena Villata, Elena Cabrio, Oscar Rodríguez Rocha, Raphaël Gazzotti, Fabien Gandon.

• Program: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project, funding under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.

• Project acronym: MIREL

• Project title: MIning and REasoning with legal text

• Duration: 2016-2019

• Coordinator: Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg

• Other partners: University of Bologna (Italy), University of Torino (Italy), University of Huddersfield (UK), Inria (France), APIS (Bulgaria), Nomotika s.r.l. (Italy), DLVSystem s.r.l. (Italy), Zhejiang University (China), Research Organization of Information and Systems (Japan), University of Cape Town (South Africa), National University of La Plata (Argentina), National University of Córdoba (Argentina), Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca (Argentina), National ICT Australia Ltd (Australia), Stanford University (USA).

• Abstract: The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used for querying norms, compliance checking, and decision support. MIREL addresses both conceptual challenges, such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and the complexity of regulatory compliance. It bridges the gap between the community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community working on reasoning methods and formal logic. Moreover, it is the first project of its kind to involve industrial partners in the future development of innovative products and services in legal reasoning and their deployment in the market. MIREL promotes mobility and staff exchange between SMEs to academies in order to create an inter-continental interdisciplinary consortium in Law and Artificial Intelligence areas including Natural Language Processing, Computational Ontologies, Argumentation, and Logic & Reasoning.

• Web site: http://www.mirelproject.eu/

ALOOF CHIST-ERA

Participants : Valerio Basile, Elena Cabrio, Fabien Gandon.

ALOOF (Autonomous Learning of the Meaning of Objects) is a European project (CHIST-ERA 2015-2018) to enable robots to use the ever-growing amount of knowledge available on the Web, by learning from there about the meaning of previously unseen objects, expressed in a form that makes them applicable when acting in situated environments. Partners include: University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), Technische Universität Wien (Austria), Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée (France).

Web site: https://project.inria.fr/aloof/