Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management

Breuker, Joost; Valente, André; Winkels, Radboud

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-32253-5_4

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“…Fig. 5) using standard ontologies (e.g., Breuker et al, 2003). Second, the implementing body must have a service-oriented organization and ICT architecture (cf.…”

Section: Local Egovernmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and managing the variability of Web service-based systems

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Sinnema

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Journal of Systems and Software

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“…Fig. 5) using standard ontologies (e.g., Breuker et al, 2003). Second, the implementing body must have a service-oriented organization and ICT architecture (cf.…”

Section: Local Egovernmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and managing the variability of Web service-based systems

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Rossing

Sinnema

et al. 2010

Journal of Systems and Software

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“…7. Every Norm is associated with a sanction 7 , which is a PlanWithPatient (the subclass of Plan which is in some has-patient relation with an individual playing a Patient-Role). 8.…”

Section: Norms Have a Topicmentioning

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“…In this section, we overview three models, which seem more relevant for setting the context of the present work. In various papers, Breuker, Valente and Winkels (BVW) have described a 'functional model' of legal systems [7,25].…”

Section: Ontological Models Of the Legal Systemmentioning

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On the Ontological Status of Norms

Boella

Lesmo

Damiano

2005

Law and the Semantic Web

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Abstract. This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system aims at regulating a society, then its goal can be achieved only by affecting the behavior of the members of the society. We assume that a society is made up of agents (which can be individuals, institutions, software programs, etc.), that agents have beliefs, goals and preferences, and that they commit to intentions in order to choose a line of behavior. The role of norms, within a legal system, is to specify how and when the chosen behavior agrees with the basic principles of the legal system. In this article, we show how a model based on plans can be the basis for the ontological representation of norms, linking them to the upper level of a philosophically well-founded ontology (DOLCE); in this way, the model is set in a wider perspective, which opens the way to further developments.

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“…At present we are using the legal ontology from the Portuguese Attorney General's Office, consisting of around 6,000 classes and having around 10,000 relations [3]. However, other top-level ontologies could be used, such as, the DOLCE proposal [4] or the FOLaw and LRI-core proposal [5] used in the context of the IST programs E-POWER and E-COURT [6]. In the future, we expect to use the results of the e-Content project LOIS -Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing, which aims to create an european-wide top-level legal ontology.…”

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A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System

Saias

Quaresma

2005

Law and the Semantic Web

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Abstract. Legal web information retrieval systems need the capability to reason with the knowledge modeled by legal ontologies. Using this knowledge it is possible to represent and to make inferences about the semantic content of legal documents.In this paper a methodology for applying NLP techniques to automatically create a legal ontology is proposed. The ontology is defined in the OWL semantic web language and it is used in a logic programming framework, EVOLP+ISCO, to allow users to query the semantic content of the documents. ISCO allows an easy and efficient integration of declarative, object-oriented and constraint-based programming techniques with the capability to create connections with external databases. EVOLP is a dynamic logic programming framework allowing the definition of rules for actions and events.An application of the proposed methodology to the legal information retrieval system of the Portuguese Attorney General's Office is described.

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Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management

Cited by 44 publications

References 23 publications

Modeling and managing the variability of Web service-based systems

Modeling and managing the variability of Web service-based systems

On the Ontological Status of Norms

A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System

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