Eunomos, A Legal Document and Knowledge Management System for Regulatory Compliance

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

“…This database is connected with the legal document management system to associate concepts and articles or items of legislations. Moreover, a database of prescriptions (obligations) and associated roles are present, as discussed in Boella et al [12]. This component is outside the scope of the paper (see Section 5.1).…”

“…Laws are converted into NormaInRete (NIR) XML format using the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG)'s XML parser 12 if they are in pure textual format. 13 Maintaining laws in NIR XML format makes it easier for Eunomos to extract elements such as paragraphs, articles and references so that knowledge engineers can categorise and annotate the elements, and lawyers can view specific relevant information.…”

Eunomos, a Legal Document and Knowledge Management System to Build Legal Services

“…The basic Eunomos system described above has been extended so that the ontology includes prescriptions on what the financial institution must do or not do to comply with the law, containing the following fields: deontic clause, active role, passive role, crime, sanction. A macro-prescription can also be stored which specifies a general principle and contains links to specific prescriptions that come under this principle [12,11]. The structuring of prescriptions in terms of concepts enables the user to make finetuned searches such as: list the prescriptions for which the concept of responsible has the active role.…”