Enrico Francesconi
Enrico Francesconi holds a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Florence. He is a Research Director at IGSG-CNR, the Institute for Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems of the National Research Council of Italy and, currently, he is Policy Officer of the European Parliament. His main research interests include Semantic Web technologies for the legal domain, legal ontologies and knowledge representation, AI techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, e-Government, e-Participation, semantic models for the document collections of the European Union.
He has been Policy Officer of the European Commission – DG Publications Office, member of the Italian and European working groups defining XML and URI standards for legal documents and representative of the Italian Ministry of Justice in the e-Law Working Group of the Council of the European Union.
He has been involved in various projects of the European Commission framework programs and consultant of the European Parliament and of the Council of Europe for introducing semantic web technologies for legal information management.
He is President of the Nominating Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). He was President IAAIL for the period 2020-2021 (Vice-President (2018-2019)) and Member of the IAAIL Executive Committee (2014-2021). He is Section Editor on Ontology and Knowledge Representation of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (Springer), co-Editor in Chief of the Journal on Open Access to Law (Cornell University, Law School), Scientific Advisory Board Member of Law, Governance and Technology Series (Springer).
He served as Conference Chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013, Rome), Program Chair of the 34th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2022), Program co-Chair of the International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS).
He is contract professor of Information Retrieval and Semantic Web Technologies at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Florence.
Selected publications
- E. Francesconi, G. Governatori, Patterns for Legal Compliance Checking in a Decidable Framework of Linked Open Data, in Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-022-09317-8
- E. Francesconi, The Winter, the Summer and the Summer Dream of Artificial Intelligence in Law, in Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2022,
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-022-09309-8 - E. Francesconi, Reasoning with Deontic Notions in a Decidable Framework, in G. Peruginelli, S. Faro (eds.), Knowledge of the Law in the Big Data Age, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, vol. 317, IOS Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-61499-984-3 (print); ISBN 978-1-61499-985-0 (online).
- E. Francesconi, P. Schmitz, F. Sanmartin, N. Hajlaoui, B. Batouche, A. Stellato, Automatic Alignment of Multilingual Resources in the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud, in Journal of Open Access to Law, vol. 6 n. 1, 2018, ISSN: 2372-7152
- E. Francesconi, Modelli Concettuali per Servizi di e-Participation nel Processo Legislativo Europeo, in Informatica e Diritto, XLII Annata, Vol. XXV, n. 2, pp. 187-205, ESI 2016
- E. Francesconi, Semantic Model for Legal Resources: Annotation and Reasoning over Normative Provisions, in Semantic Web journal: Special Issue on Semantic Web for the legal domain, Volume 7, Number 3, IOS Press, 2016, ISSN (print) 1570-0844, ISSN (online) 2210-4968
- E. Francesconi, G. Peruginelli, Transnational Access to Legal Information. Document Identification Standards for Case Law, in AIDAinformazioni, Rivista di scienze dell'informazione, anno 33, numero 3-4, 2015, ISBN 978-88-548-8992-7, ISSN 1121-0095
- E. Francesconi, A Description Logic Framework for Advanced Accessing and Reasoning over Normative Provisions, in Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume 22, Issue 3, page 291-311, Springer, 2014, DOI 10.1007/s10506-014-9158-2
- T. Bench-Capon, M. Araszkiewicz, K. Ashley, K. Atkinson, F. Bex, F. Borges, D. Bourcier, P. Bourgine, J. G. Conrad, E. Francesconi, T. F. Gordon, G. Governatori, J. L. Leidner, D. D. Lewis, R. P. Loui, L. T. McCarty, H. Prakken, F. Schilder, E. Schweighofer, P. Thompson, A. Tyrrell, B. Verheij, D. N. Walton, and A. Z. Wyner. A history of ai and law in 50 papers: 25 years of the international conference on AI and Law, in Artificial Intelligence and Law, vol. 20, n.3, pp. 215-319, Springer, 2012. DOI 10.1007/s10506-012-9131-x
- E. Francesconi and A. Passerini, Automatic Classification of Provisions in Legislative Texts, in Artificial Intelligence and Law, vol. 15, pp. 1-17, Springer, 2007, DOI 10.1007/s10506-007-9038-0