Ontologies represent the standard way to model the knowledge about specific domains. This holds also for the legal domain where several ontologies have been put forward to model specific kinds of legal knowledge. Both for standard users and for law scholars, it is often difficult to have an overall view on the existing alternatives, their main features and their interlinking with the other ontologies. To answer this need, in this paper, we address an analysis of the state-of-the-art in legal ontologies and we characterise them along with some distinctive features. This paper aims to guide generic users and law experts in selecting the legal ontology that better fits their needs and in understanding its specificity so that proper extensions to the selected model could be investigated.

Taking stock of legal ontologies: a feature-based comparative analysis

Leone V.
First
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Di Caro L.;Villata S.
2020-01-01

Abstract

Ontologies represent the standard way to model the knowledge about specific domains. This holds also for the legal domain where several ontologies have been put forward to model specific kinds of legal knowledge. Both for standard users and for law scholars, it is often difficult to have an overall view on the existing alternatives, their main features and their interlinking with the other ontologies. To answer this need, in this paper, we address an analysis of the state-of-the-art in legal ontologies and we characterise them along with some distinctive features. This paper aims to guide generic users and law experts in selecting the legal ontology that better fits their needs and in understanding its specificity so that proper extensions to the selected model could be investigated.
2020
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This paper offers an analysis of the state-of-the-art in legal ontologies, characterizing them along distinctive features to guide users and law experts in selecting the most suitable ontology for their needs. It represents the first systematic work that allows the understanding and the active exploration of existing legal ontologies to make them actually reusable.
Legal ontologies; Modelling legal knowledge; Semantic web
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3 – prodotto con deroga per i casi previsti dal Regolamento (allegherò il modulo al passo 5-Carica)
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Leone V.; Di Caro L.; Villata S.
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