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

Leone, Valentina; Di, Luigi; Villata, Serena

doi:10.1007/s10506-019-09252-1

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“…A legal ontology is a theory that describes the concepts that exist in the legal acts and how they are connected. Many kinds of research have been undertaken to develop ontological representations for legal documents to achieve law compliance [8] [9] [10] [11]. on other hand, a big number of studies exist for achieving law compliance through linking laws policies with Business Process Models (BPM) [12] I, we argue that this literature survey could not found any contribution that addresses the topic of how to integrate law compliance solutions with the enterprise model.…”

Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 97%

Law Architecture for Regulatory-Compliant Public Enterprise Model: A Focus on Healthcare Reform in Egypt

Mohamed¹,

El-Bendary²,

Abdo³

2021

IJACSA

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Public business operations are governed by a set of legal sources, which regulate their implementation under administrative laws that are increasingly influencing software system design and development. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a critical approach for driving business and Information Systems (IS) transformation in the public sector. On the other hand, EA frameworks lack representation schemas that support law models. Understanding of the law Architecture in the government domain is required for EA work and is thus the first architecture activity that must be completed. As EA approaches for Law compliance reviews are performed by legal experts, there is a gap between law experts and technical system architects. To cover these gaps, this paper proposes a novel framework for analyzing the administrative laws, extracting the legal policies and legal rules, identify their relationships with other EA domains, and identifying the law compliance requirements. Moreover, the integration of our proposed law architecture framework with existing EA frameworks to reach a law-compliant public enterprise model is identified. Finally, the applicability of the proposed framework is shown and validated through a case study. Moreover, subject matter experts of the legal domain also evaluated the extracted legal policies and rules during the implementation of our proposed framework.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 97%

Law Architecture for Regulatory-Compliant Public Enterprise Model: A Focus on Healthcare Reform in Egypt

Mohamed¹,

El-Bendary²,

Abdo³

2021

IJACSA

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“…The study shows that a large number of legal ontologies have been proposed over time and are available for reuse. Leone et al (2019) classifies legal ontologies according general, modeling and semantic information. Ajani et al (2016) proposed the European Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (ELTS) as a lightweight ontology that should help to relate national and European legal terminology to represent the differences in the national legal systems of the EU member states.…”

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confidence: 99%

The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

2021

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The European Union is working towards harmonizing legislation across Europe, in order to improve cross-border interchange of legal information. This goal is supported for instance via standards such as the European Law Identifier (ELI) and the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI), which provide technical specifications for Web identifiers and suggestions for vocabularies to be used to describe metadata pertaining to legal documents in a machine readable format. Notably, these ECLI and ELI metadata standards adhere to the RDF data format which forms the basis of Linked Data, and therefore have the potential to form a basis for a pan-European legal Knowledge Graph. Unfortunately, to date said specifications have only been partially adopted by EU member states. In this paper we describe a methodology to transform the existing legal information system used in Austria to such a legal knowledge graph covering different steps from modeling national specific aspects, to population, and finally the integration of legal data from other countries through linked data. We demonstrate the usefulness of this approach by exemplifying practical use cases from legal information search, which are not possible in an automated fashion so far.

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“…In relation to the objective of this work, the author will mention several recent works related to the use of ontologies in the field of legislation. This analysis is intentionally not exhaustive, as the reader interested in a more in-depth comparison can find it in [4]. Much effort has been made to semantically structure different sets of laws into what is commonly called a legal ontology.…”

Section: Related Work: Ontologies and Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Ontology-based approach to the “new normality” after COVID-19: the Spanish case during pandemic first wave

González¹

2021

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been immense in all fields of human activity. In most of the affected countries, the authorities have decreed a series of legal measures to try to stop the growth of the disease and the number of people affected by it. These legal measures involved, in most cases, restrictions on the free movement of people and on work and trade activities, new hygiene procedures, and social distancing. In the particular case of Spain, the rapid evolution of the pandemic led to the declaration of a so-called state of alarm and a period of confinement in private homes. The novelty of the situation and the large number of official decrees approved may have led to confusion among the Spanish population in some cases. In this context, in this paper we present an ontological approach that could be the germ of a knowledge base on the measures approved by the Spanish Government in relation to the pandemic during the so-called first wave (March-June 2020). This ontology has been developed in OWL (Ontology Web Language) for its possible compatibility with semantic web-based applications and allows the consultation of statements related to various aspects of daily life during this period.

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

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Law Architecture for Regulatory-Compliant Public Enterprise Model: A Focus on Healthcare Reform in Egypt

Law Architecture for Regulatory-Compliant Public Enterprise Model: A Focus on Healthcare Reform in Egypt

The linked legal data landscape: linking legal data across different countries

Towards an Ontology-based approach to the “new normality” after COVID-19: the Spanish case during pandemic first wave

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