Organisations

POLINE is coordinated by the University of Bologna (UNIBO), which successfully took part in several EU-funded research projects and coordinated the ADELE project. UNIBO participates through both the Department of Legal Studies (DSG), and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), with a focus on AI research. DSG and DISI have an outstanding track record with EU-funded projects, strong expertise in innovation and technological transfer, and experience in coordinating European projects. DSG, especially with the ALMA AI-Cirsfid research centre on legal informatics,  ensures the necessary expertise for integrating legal and computer science research and performing effective oversight. DISI leads the research on applying machine learning and NLP techniques for knowledge extraction. Both will support the organisation of tool tests and the dissemination of activities.

Apis Europe (APIS) is a private joint-stock company specialising in the development, implementation and maintenance of legal information systems related to Bulgarian and EU law (APIS Law, EuroCases, etc), with a strong experience in European projects. APIS will lead the building of the ADELE pilot tool (WP4). In WP2, it will coordinate WP2 activities and argument mining (in WP3) with regard to the two Bulgarian datasets. In WP5, APIS will support SUB in organising the tool tests in Bulgaria.

The European University Institute-Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI) is a leading European institution for legal research. It will provide its expertise in the Legal Tech fields of the project, as well as its experience in collaboration and exchange between legal practitioners and the academic community, through the involvement of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation and a network of experts, including Prof. and Judge Amedeo Santosuosso. EUI will participate in the legal analysis and annotation of Italian datasets (WP2), it will lead WP5 and will be in charge of the organization of the Italian tool tests.

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin (UNITO) has participated in several EU-funded research projects in Legal Informatics. It will bring its expertise in legal informatics, machine learning and natural language processing to the project. In WP2 activities on the Italian corpus, UNITO will lead the work on network analysis, participate in annotation and collaborate in the development of the ontology framework under the leadership of UNILU.

Örebro University currently ranks among the top 500 universities in the world according to Times Higher Education 2022. For a few years now, we have also been included on the Shanghai ranking (ARWU) and most recently on the Leiden ranking. Close ties between teaching and learning, research and collaboration, are the mutual starting points for all activities. We offer many attractive professional degree programmes in, among others, medicine, psychology, law and engineering. The university has strong research within medicine, psychology, environmental science and computer science.