A language for legal Discourse I. basic features

McCarty, L. Thorne

doi:10.1145/74014.74037

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“…We need to consider the possibility of reifying normative modalities, positions, relations, propositions (on reification of normative ideas, see for instance McCarty 1989 andHage 1997). Reification should allows us to individualise instances of legal concepts: not only can s we ay say that it is obligatory that j does A, but we can also speak of an obligation of j to do A, which is an object having a particular source, particular warranties, and particular limitations, which can distinguished from other obligations of j (possibly having the same content A), can be transferred to others, and so on.…”

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Fundamental Legal Concepts: A Formal and Teleological Characterisation

Sartor

2006

SSRN Journal

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ABSTRACT:We shall introduce a set of fundamental legal concepts, providing a definition of each of them. This set will include, besides the usual deontic modalities (obligation, prohibition and permission), the following notions: obligative rights (rights related to others' obligations), permissive rights, erga-omnes rights, normative conditionals, liability rights, different kinds of legal powers, potestative rights (rights to produce legal results), resultive declarations (acts intended to produce legal determinations), and sources of the law.

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Fundamental Legal Concepts: A Formal and Teleological Characterisation

Sartor

2006

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“…There is a number of works that consider the theoretical issues related to the construction of legal ontologies [34,48,16]. In particular the framework presented in Kralingen [30] is a frame-based system that classifies the legal facts.…”

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Eunomos, a legal document and knowledge management system for the Web to provide relevant, reliable and up-to-date information on the law

Boella

Humphreys

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Artif Intell Law

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This paper describes the Eunomos software, an advanced legal document and knowledge management system, based on legislative XML and ontologies. We describe the challenges of legal research in an increasingly complex, multi-level and multi-lingual world and how the Eunomos software helps users cut through the information overload to get the legal information they need in an organized and structured way and keep track of the state of the relevant law on any given topic. We describe the core system from workflow and technical perspectives, and discuss applications of the system for various user groups and our long term vision towards an Internet of Social Things, where laws can have an identity and be manipulated adding interpretation and can proactively inform interested users of their changes over time.

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“…Due to the complexity of this new and heterogeneous field, Valente (2005: 72) proposed a classification of the set of types and roles of ontologies in order to account for the legal 5 From this point of view, law is a dynamic, normative field and its conceptualization would necessarily include those aspects, together with the representation of world knowledge or common-sense knowledge (see, for example, Lame (2002) and Breuker and Hoekstra (2004) (2) have a reasoning and a problem solving engine, such as the ontology CLIME for maritime law (Boer, Hoekstra & Winkels 2001) or Argument Developer, which works with different types of legal data bases (Zeleznikow & Stranieri, 2001); (4) understand a domain, such as those which are more generally applied in law, e.g. the functional ontologies of law (based on Ontolingua) by Breuker (1994, 1999), and those of language of legal discourse by McCarty (1989) Ontology) and several domain-specific terminological modules or satellite ontologies).…”

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The process of constructing ontological meaning based on criminal law verbs

Lago

2016

CLAC

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This study intends to account for the process involved in the construction of the conceptual meaning of verbs (#EVENTS) directly related to legal aspects of terrorism and organized crime based on the evidence provided by the Globalcrimeterm Corpus and the consistent application of specific criteria for term extraction. The selected 49 concepts have eventually been integrated in the Core Ontology of FunGramKB (Functional Grammar Knowledge Base), a knowledge base which is founded on the principles of deep semantics and is also aimed at the computational development of the Lexical Constructional Model (www.fungramkb.com). To achieve this purpose, key phases of the COHERENT methodology (Periñán Pascual & Mairal Usón 2011) are followed, particularly those which involve the modelling, subsumption and hierarchisation of the aforementioned verbal concepts. The final outcome of this research shows that most of the apparently specialised conceptual units should eventually be included in the Core Ontology instead of the specific Globalcrimeterm Subontology, due to the fact that the semantic content of their corresponding lexical units can be found in widely used learner`s dictionaries and, consequently, this conceptual information is not only shared by the experts in the field but also by the layperson and the average speaker of the language.

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A language for legal Discourse I. basic features

Cited by 104 publications

References 30 publications

Fundamental Legal Concepts: A Formal and Teleological Characterisation

Fundamental Legal Concepts: A Formal and Teleological Characterisation

Eunomos, a legal document and knowledge management system for the Web to provide relevant, reliable and up-to-date information on the law

The process of constructing ontological meaning based on criminal law verbs

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