Terminological and ontological analysis of European directives

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

“…The methodology we use is to take inspiration from technologies developed in the related fields of legislative drafting for parliaments (so called legislative XML) and legal ontologies extending the tool for building legal ontologies called Legal Taxonomy Syllabus by Ajani et al [5]. We export these technologies in the context of applications for legal researchers and practitioners.…”

An Interoperability Approach for Enabling Access to e-Justice Systems across Europe

“…To approach the complexity of the EU multilingual legal scenario, as well as to align concepts of the EU legal domain, one cannot just transfer the conceptual structure of a legal system to another, because of different national legal contexts and legislative cultures within EU Member States [7] [8]. A similar problem arises even with regards to the obligation of EU Member States to implement European Directives into national laws.…”

“…A similar problem arises even with regards to the obligation of EU Member States to implement European Directives into national laws. Far from being a straight transposition, this process usually includes a further step in which European Directives are subject to interpretation which can lead to diverging legislation within the Member States (see [7] for interesting examples). With respect to other domains where conceptual negotiations mainly pertain to linguistic aspects (as for example the e-Health domain), in the e-Justice one, meanings negotiation addresses legal concept nuances in different legal systems and traditions.…”

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

“…Lately, articles have begun to appear in specialist 4 and even mainstream 5 press about an increased interest in bespoke ITC solutions, and in particular, human language technologies, for legal domains. But how much is the demand in reality?…”

“…The ontology used in Eunomos is based on our Legal Taxonomy Syllabus [5,2]. The tool is based on a clear distinction between the notions of legal term and legal concept.…”