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标题：Ex Machina: Analytical platforms, Law and the Challenges of Computational Legal Science
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作者：Nicola Lettieri ; Antonio Altamura ; Rosalba Giugno 等
期刊名称：Future Internet
电子版ISSN：1999-5903
出版年度：2018
卷号：10
期号：5
页码：37
DOI：10.3390/fi10050037
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Over the years, computation has become a fundamental part of the scientific practice in several research fields that goes far beyond the boundaries of natural sciences. Data mining, machine learning, simulations and other computational methods lie today at the hearth of the scientific endeavour in a growing number of social research areas from anthropology to economics. In this scenario, an increasingly important role is played by analytical platforms: integrated environments allowing researchers to experiment cutting-edge data-driven and computation-intensive analyses. The paper discusses the appearance of such tools in the emerging field of computational legal science. After a general introduction to the impact of computational methods on both natural and social sciences, we describe the concept and the features of an analytical platform exploring innovative cross-methodological approaches to the academic and investigative study of crime. Stemming from an ongoing project involving researchers from law, computer science and bioinformatics, the initiative is presented and discussed as an opportunity to raise a debate about the future of legal scholarship and, inside of it, about the challenges of computational legal science.
关键词：computational science; analytical platforms; computational legal science; legal informatics; network-based inference; machine learning; crime analysis computational science ; analytical platforms ; computational legal science ; legal informatics ; network-based inference ; machine learning ; crime analysis