Abstract What is the philosophical role of an historical account how someone, or some people, came to believe value as they do? I consider proposals, due Bernard Williams and David Wiggins, according which such might either vindicate subvert our believing valuing we do. suggest reasons for scepticism about those at least when construed providing a fundamental means assessing cases valuing. The ...

Belgium has become one of the few countries in the world where euthanasia is legally allowed within a specific juridical framework. Even more unique is the inclusion of grounds for requesting euthanasia on the basis of mental suffering. Further refinement of the legal, medical and psychiatric approach to the issue is required in order to clear up essential practical and ethical matters. Psychia...

The application of the cadastral concept in common law jurisdictions is reviewed. The relationship between a cadastre and a statewide parcel based land information system is highlighted. The origins and evolution of cadastres are described. The characteristics and development of existing land administration systems in common law jurisdictions are discussed. It is suggested that there is a consi...

This paper describes UAIC’s Question Answering systems participating in the ResPubliQA 2010 competition, designed to answer questions on a juridical corpora in Romanian, English and French monolingual tasks. Our systems adhere to the classical architecture of a Question Answering system, with an emphasis on simplicity and real time answers: only shallow parsing was used for question processing,...

The current Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church was promulgated on January 25, 1983, and went into effect on the First Sunday of Advent that same year. During this quarter of a century, the Code has substantially achieved its principal aim: to translate the pastoral movement of Vatican II into stable structures and effective juridical forms within the context of the church’s canonical tradit...

In this paper I propose a model for situated information processing based on a set of layers, each related to a different processing phase and to a different context type. The model is illustrated with reference to a system for processing semantically rich documents, typical of business and juridical domains. Starting from the conceptual level of document definition, through operations of selec...