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Spanish judges, especially newly\u2010recruited ones, hold a solid background of theoretical legal knowledge, but are much less familiar with the judicial knowledge of the more senior judges acquired from everyday practice and case resolution. The aim of this development is to capture and model these two aspects of judicial knowledge \u2013 theoretical and practical \u2013 for knowledge browsing and retrieving.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Semantic web technologies are applied to feed a question\u2010answering system based on ontologies of professional legal knowledge (OPLK).<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>There is a kind of specific legal knowledge, which belongs properly to the expert domain, not being captured by current legal core ontologies, i.e. Judges require clues, hints or well\u2010grounded practical guidelines that refer to the problem they have before them when they put a question or start the query. A scalable and useful frequently\u2010asked questions system should have a simple, natural language interface, work in a real time environment, and the questions included in the system should be of high quality and reflect the current situation.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The final system will enable the users to ask queries in natural language and obtain answers, which are supported by legal documents stored in specialized legal databases. 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