Legal Text Processing and Information Extraction -- Legal Language and Legal Knowledge Management Applications -- Named Entity Recognition and Resolution in Legal Text -- Using Linguistic Information and Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Entities from Juridical Documents -- Approaches to Text Mining Arguments from Legal Cases -- Legal Text Processing and Construction of Knowledge Resources -- Automatic Identification of Legal Terms in Czech Law Texts -- Integrating a Bottom–Up and Top–Down Methodology for Building Semantic Resources for the Multilingual Legal Domain -- Ontology Based Law Discovery -- Multilevel Legal Ontologies -- Legal Text Processing and Semantic Indexing, Summarization and Translation -- Semantic Indexing of Legal Documents -- Automated Classification of Norms in Sources of Law -- Efficient Multilabel Classification Algorithms for Large-Scale Problems in the Legal Domain -- An Automatic System for Summarization and Information Extraction of Legal Information -- Evaluation Metrics for Consistent Translation of Japanese Legal Sentences.

The last few years have seen a growing body of research and practice addressing aspects such as automated legal reasoning and argumentation, semantic and cross-language legal information retrieval, document classification, legal drafting, legal knowledge discovery and extraction. This State-of-the-Art Survey contains invited contributions of leading researchers and groups eminently active in the field, which were complemented with selected papers from the Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2008, within the framework of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). These publications mirror the state-of-the-art in linguistic technologies, tools and resources focusing on the automatic extraction of relevant information from legal texts, and the structured organization of this extracted knowledge for legal knowledge representation and scholarly activity, with particular emphasis on the crucial role played by language resources and human language technologies. The contents are organized in three topical sections on information extraction; construction of knowledge resources; and semantic indexing, summarization and translation.