Crowdsourced Legal Case Annotation
From the post:
This is an academic research study on legal informatics (information processing of the law). The study uses an online, collaborative tool to crowdsource the annotation of legal cases. The task is similar to legal professionals’ annotation of cases. The result will be a public corpus of searchable, richly annotated legal cases that can be further processed, analysed, or queried for conceptual annotations.
Adam and Wim are computer scientists who are interested in language, law, and the Internet.
We are inviting people to participate in this collaborative task. This is a beta version of the exercise, and we welcome comments on how to improve it. Please read through this blog post, look at the video, and get in contact.
Non-trivial annotation of complex source documents.
What you do with the annotations, such as create topic maps, etc. would be a separate step.
The early evidence for the enhancement of our own work, based on the work of others, Picking the Brains of Strangers…, should make this approach even more exciting.
PS: I saw this at Legal Informatics but wanted to point you directly to the source article.
Just musing for a moment but what if the conclusion on collaboration and access is that by restricting access we impoverish not only others, but ourselves as well?
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