Projet MIREL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. 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. The development of the MIREL framework and tools will be guided by the needs of three industrial partners, and validated by industrial case studies. 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. 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. The European MIREL partners are key players in the communities of Deontic, AI & Law, and the Semantic Web, communities that have traditionally been strong in Europe. The MIREL consortium brings these scientists together with researchers with expertise traditionally lacking in Europe, such as norm and argument mining (Argentina, Japan and China), description logic for reasoning about legal ontologies (South Africa), natural language semantics of deontic modals (US), and the complexity analysis of regulatory compliance (Australia).

Mots clés : legal informatics, natural language processing, natural language semantics, parsing, reasoning

Participants :
- University of Turin (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 81000.0 €
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- National University of La Plata (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Cape Town (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Apis hristovich eood (Bulgarie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 22500.0 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 193500.0 €
- University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 405000.0 €
- Nomotika srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Zhejiang University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 180000.0 €
- Inter-University Research Institute Corporation (Japon) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Bologna (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 198000.0 €
- Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Dlvsystem srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 72000.0 €
- Stanford University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €