3 research outputs found
Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft
In this paper, we introduce a system to collect product information from
manufacturers and make it available in tools that are used for concurrent
design of spacecraft. The planning of a spacecraft needs experts from different
disciplines, like propulsion, power, and thermal. Since these different
disciplines rely on each other there is a high need for communication between
them, which is often realized by a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
process and corresponding tools. We show by comparison that the product
information provided by manufacturers often does not match the information
needed by MBSE tools on a syntactic or semantic level. The information from
manufacturers is also currently not available in machine-readable formats.
Afterwards, we present a prototype of a system that makes product information
from manufacturers directly available in MBSE tools, in a machine-readable way.Comment: accepted at CDVE201
Automatic text summarisation of case law using gate with annie and summa plug-ins
Legal reasoning and judicial verdicts in many legal systems are highly dependent on case law. The ever increasing number of case law make the task of comprehending case law in a legal case cumbersome for legal practitioners; and this invariably stifles their efficiency. Legal reasoning and judicial verdicts will therefore be easier and faster, if case law were in abridged form that preserves their original meaning. This paper used the General Information Extraction System Architecture approach and integrated Natural Language Processing, Annotation, and Information Extraction tools to develop a software system that does automatic extractive text summarisation of Nigeria Supreme Court case law. The summarised case law which were about 20% of their original, were evaluated for semantic preservation and has shown to be 83% reliable.Keywords: Case law, text summarisation, text engineering, text annotation, text extractio