Overview
- Latest trends in legal knowledge modelling
- Offers an exhaustive revision of existing ontologies in the legal domain
- Clarifies the underlying theoretical and methodological basis for the Legal Semantic Web
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- AI
- AI and Law
- Artificial Intelligence
- Comparative Law
- E-Administration
- E-Courts
- E-Governance
- Judicial Knowledge
- Lawful Interaction
- Legal Databases
- Legal Knowledge
- Legal Knowledge Engineering
- Legal Knowledge Representation
- Legal Knowledge Systems
- Legal Ontologies
- Legal Semantic Web
- Legal Semantics
- Legal Support
- Multilingual-Legal-Information-System
- OPJK
- Ontologies
- Ontology
- Ontology Design
- Ontology Development
- Ontology Modelling
- Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge
- Semantic Metadata
- Semantic Web
- Semantically-enhanced
- Social Ontology
- Thesaurus
About this book
Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse, enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge to enhance legal knowledge management are challenging tasks, for which different solutions and lines of research have been proposed.
During the last decade, research and applications based on the use of legal ontologies as a technique to represent legal knowledge has raised a very interesting debate about their capacity and limitations to represent conceptual structures in the legal domain. Making conceptual legal knowledge explicit would support the development of a web of legal knowledge, improve communication, create trust and enable and support open data, e-government and e-democracy activities. Moreover, this explicit knowledge is also relevant to the formalization of software agents and the shaping of virtual institutions and multi-agent systems or environments.
This book explores the use of ontologism in legal knowledge representation for semantically-enhanced legal knowledge systems or web-based applications. In it, current methodologies, tools and languages used for ontology development are revised, and the book includes an exhaustive revision of existing ontologies in the legal domain. The development of the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge (OPJK) is presented as a case study.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Ontology Engineering
Book Subtitle: Methodologies, Modelling Trends, and the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge
Authors: Núria Casellas
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1497-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1496-0Published: 12 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3754-9Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1497-7Published: 12 August 2011
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 298
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Information Systems and Communication Service, Philosophy of Law