An OWL ontology framework for judicial knowledge (original) (raw)

Abstract

The present paper presents an ontology set built in OWL2 language, whose aim is to classify the metadata coming from judicial documents (judicial decisions and other acts of a judicial process) with a particular focus on judicial interpretation. The set is constituted by a core ontology, containing a standard model for the classification of knowledge related to judicial interpretation, and a domain ontology, where this model is applied to a set of real-life judicial deci-sionson in consumer law, automatically extracted from a case-law repository. The most important design choice is the creation of a complex class called "Qual-ifying Legal Expression", and the utilization of the new feature of OWL2 called ObjectPropertyChain to bind together the semantics judicial interpretation in-stances. Well aware that representing legal reasoning requires defeasible reason-ing, which OWL-DL cannot achieve due to its Open World Assumption, the aim of this experimental ontology is to tes...

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