Ontologies of Professional Legal Knowledge as the Basis for Intelligent IT Support for Judges

Benjamins, V. Richard; Contreras, J. G.; Casanovas, Pompeu; Ayuso, Mercedes; Bécue, Mónica; Lemus, Lidia Ramírez; Urios, Cristina

doi:10.1007/s10506-005-4159-9

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“…(iii) have semantic indexing and search, such as the ontologies of French codes (Lame, 2002), ontologies which represent cases of financial fraud (Leary, Vandenberghe & Zeleznikow, 2004) or which develop an intelligent FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) system for judges (Benjamins et al, 2003;Casanovas, Casellas & Vallbé, 2008);…”

Section: Legal Ontologies and Subontologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foundational considerations for the development of the Globalcrimeterm subontology: A research project based on FunGramKB

Lago

2015

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This paper describes the theoretical foundations, the general methodological guidelines and the specific tasks for the development of the Globalcrimeterm project, a domain-specific subontology based on a specific area of criminal law (international cooperation against terrorism and organized crime) within the architecture of FunGramKB, which is a multipurpose lexico-conceptual knowledge base for natural language processing (NLP) systems. One of the features of this subontology is, firstly, its commitment to structure its concepts under the postulates of deep semantics, unlike the more traditional approach only oriented towards surface semantics, and, secondly, to orientate the tasks of terminologists and knowledge engineers who wish to expand the general knowledge of FunGramKB Core Ontology and, at the same time, integrate the specialized knowledge through its representation in a domain-specific subontology such as Globalcrimeterm.

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Section: Legal Ontologies and Subontologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foundational considerations for the development of the Globalcrimeterm subontology: A research project based on FunGramKB

Lago

2015

Onomázein

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“…For instance, gathered several data about the Spanish junior judges' needs, concerns, and problems, concluding that this should be a relevant topic to consider in future research since the on-call service "raises many problems and doubts" among judges (Benjamins et al 2004b). For instance, gathered several data about the Spanish junior judges' needs, concerns, and problems, concluding that this should be a relevant topic to consider in future research since the on-call service "raises many problems and doubts" among judges (Benjamins et al 2004b).…”

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“…In this context, provided a discussion on both selection and evaluation mechanisms in the Spanish judicial system, within the context of a wide research program on the application and impact of information technologies and knowledge management systems in the Spanish legal-specially judicial-system (see also Casanovas et al 2003;Benjamins et al 2004bBenjamins et al , 2005Casellas 2008). In this context, provided a discussion on both selection and evaluation mechanisms in the Spanish judicial system, within the context of a wide research program on the application and impact of information technologies and knowledge management systems in the Spanish legal-specially judicial-system (see also Casanovas et al 2003;Benjamins et al 2004bBenjamins et al , 2005Casellas 2008).…”

Section: Access To the Judicial Professional Careermentioning

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

Vallbé¹

2015

Law, Governance and Technology Series

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The Law-Governance and Technology Series is intended to attract manuscripts arising from an interdisciplinary approach in law, artificial intelligence and information technologies. The idea is to bridge the gap between research in IT law and ITapplications for lawyers developing a unifying techno-legal perspective. The series will welcome proposals that have a fairly specific focus on problems or projects that will lead to innovative research charting the course for new interdisciplinary developments in law, legal theory, and law and society research as well as in computer technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. In broad strokes, manuscripts for this series may be mainly located in the fields of the Internet law (data protection, intellectual property, Internet rights, etc.), Computational models of the legal contents and legal

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“…The IT support for junior judges was improved by legal ontologies using an intelligent FAQ system. The system emphasizes the importance of professional knowledge and their experience as an important pillar for constructing the ontology [22]. The METHONTOLOGY methodology is used for ontology building in the legal domain.…”

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ATOB algorithm: an automatic ontology construction for Thai legal sentences retrieval

Boonchom

Soonthornphisaj

2011

Journal of Information Science

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Ontology plays an important role in knowledge representation, especially in the domain of information retrieval. However, building ontology remains a challenging problem because it is a time-consuming task for experts. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a novel approach called the Automatic Thai Legal Ontology Building (ATOB) algorithm for automatic legal ontology building and to improve the court sentences retrieval process. The ATOB can automatically generate seed ontology and expand the ontology using Thai legal terminology, i.e. TLlexicon. The expansion process is terminated automatically by the threshold parameter. Moreover, the ATOB applies the concept of the ant colony algorithm to improve the court sentences retrieval process. We conclude that the effective ontology should be weight-embedded. The empirical results demonstrate that the performance of the ATOB algorithm is better than that of the traditional search method. The performance figures for the ATOB framework measured in terms of precision, recall, F-measure and diversity are 0.90, 0.91, 0.90 and 0.39, respectively.

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Ontologies of Professional Legal Knowledge as the Basis for Intelligent IT Support for Judges

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Foundational considerations for the development of the Globalcrimeterm subontology: A research project based on FunGramKB

Foundational considerations for the development of the Globalcrimeterm subontology: A research project based on FunGramKB

Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

ATOB algorithm: an automatic ontology construction for Thai legal sentences retrieval

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