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way to enhance the quality of their judicial decision
and actions. These improvements are mainly due to
the possibility to search not only text, but also events
that occurred in the courtroom. The first outcome in
JUMAS indicates that transcription and audio anal-
ysis with an acceptable word error rate and video
analysis can provide additional information in an af-
fordable way. The demonstration and validation in
progress are also providing indications about the re-
quirements for the next generation of ICT-empowered
courtrooms. Recording systems and ICT infrastruc-
ture in the courtroom that are actually under deploy-
ment or to be deployed in the near future can be de-
signed in order to support audio and video process-
ing capabilities, while information retrieval relies on
state-of-the art ICT infrastructure. JUMAS is provid-
ing not only tools for a better usability of the trial
folder, being the audio-related tools the closest to a
first deployment, but also inputs for a more future
oriented specification of e-justice systems in different
countries.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported by the European
Community FP-7 under the JUMAS Project (ref.:
214306).
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