| Authors: | Loukis E., Wimmer M., Charalabidis Y., Triantafillou A., Gatautis R. |
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| Title: | Argumentation Systems and Ontologies for Enhancing Public Participation in the Legislation Process |
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| Conference: | EGOV 2007 International Conference |
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| To appear: | No |
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| Month: | September |
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| Year: | 2007 |
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| Place: | Regensburg, Germany |
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| File name: | Ζ25_ArgumentationSys_Ontologies_Legislation_2007.pdf##^^&&177777480.pdf |
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| Abstract: | Argumentation systems and ontologies have the potential to support and enhance
the participation of citizens in the development of effective and acceptable
legislation concerning the complex and multidimensional problems that modern
societies face. However, this potential has only to a very small extent been
explored and realized. In this direction this paper describes an investigation of
this potential, which is performed as part of the EU funded project LEX-IS. The
main objective of LEX-IS is to improve the legislation process in the National
Parliaments through enhanced public participation in the preparatory stages
(legislation proposal formation and public debate of draft legislation) with the use
of state-of-the-art ICT-tools and methodologies. This paper introduces four
scenarios of public participation in above mentioned preparatory legislation
processes thereby exploring the support of argumentation systems and ontologies.
Along the scenarios, peculiarities of these two preparatory and highly significant
stages of a legislation process are discussed, and results of existing relevant
research are reflected. The basic features, advantages and disadvantages of each
scenario are shown, and the LEX-IS design is sketched. |
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