Over the last decades, the field of legal ontologies has seen a sharp increase in the number of published papers. The literature on legal ontologies now covers a wide variety of topics and research approaches. One of these topics is legal... more
Over the last decades, the field of legal ontologies has seen a sharp increase in the number of published papers. The literature on legal ontologies now covers a wide variety of topics and research approaches. One of these topics is legal core ontologies, which have received significant attention since the 1990s. In order to provide an up-to-date overview of this research area, this article presents a systematic mapping study of published researches on legal core ontologies. The selected papers were analyzed and categorized according to the perspective of their main contribution as well as according to the legal theories used. The study reveals that only a small number of studies use legal theories suitable to address current societal challenges.
Towards a FrameNet Resource for the Legal Domain Giulia Venturi1, Alessandro Lenci1, Simonetta Montemagni1, Eva Maria Vecchi1, Maria Teresa Sagri2, Daniela Tiscornia2, and Tommaso Agnoloni2 1Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR,... more
Towards a FrameNet Resource for the Legal Domain Giulia Venturi1, Alessandro Lenci1, Simonetta Montemagni1, Eva Maria Vecchi1, Maria Teresa Sagri2, Daniela Tiscornia2, and Tommaso Agnoloni2 1Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Pisa, Italy 2Institute of Legal Information ...
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal... more
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: jpalmeida@inf.ufes.br, gguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
Este artículo presenta de una manera práctica el proceso de recopilación y adquisición terminológica mediante la herramienta FunGramKB Term Extractor. Analizaremos paso a paso cómo, partiendo de un corpus de textos, obtenemos y definimos... more
Este artículo presenta de una manera práctica el proceso de recopilación y adquisición terminológica mediante la herramienta FunGramKB Term Extractor. Analizaremos paso a paso cómo, partiendo de un corpus de textos, obtenemos y definimos un conjunto de términos especializados representativos de un área temática concreta. La importancia de la adquisición terminológica es doble: por un lado, los términos especializados servirán como sustrato lingüístico, tanto para la definición de conceptos como para la creación de subontologías vinculadas a la ontología nuclear de la base de conocimiento FunGramKB; en segundo lugar, el trabajo terminológico permitirá no sólo el poblamiento conceptual de un dominio terminológico, sino también la creación de glosarios y diccionarios especializados para labores traductológicas o didácticas.
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal... more
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: jpalmeida@inf.ufes.br, gguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
This paper extends UFO-L, a Legal Core Ontology (LCO) based on Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights and grounded on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). We present the first pattern of UFO-L's patterns catalogue and its... more
This paper extends UFO-L, a Legal Core Ontology (LCO) based on Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights and grounded on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). We present the first pattern of UFO-L's patterns catalogue and its application. The general idea is to use these ontological patterns to support the modeling of legal concepts in conceptual models of the legal domain. Moreover, our approach has the specific purpose of emphasizing the use of a relational perspective rather than a normative perspective of the Law.
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... more
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.
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal... more
1 Postgraduate student, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: cristine.griffo@aluno.ufes.br 2 Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, CT-VII, 29075-910, Vitória, Brazil E-mail: jpalmeida@inf.ufes.br, gguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
In the AI&Law community, the importance of frame–based ontologies has been acknowledged since the early 90’s with the Van Kralingen’s proposal of a frame language for legal knowledge representation. This still appears to be a strongly... more
In the AI&Law community, the importance of frame–based ontologies has been acknowledged since the early 90’s with the Van Kralingen’s proposal of a frame language for legal knowledge representation. This still appears to be a strongly felt need within the community. In this paper, we propose to face this need by developing a FrameNet resource for the legal domain based on Fillmore’s Frame Semantics, whose final outcome will include a frame–based lexical ontology and a legal corpus annotated with frame information. In particular, the paper focuses on methodological and design issues, ranging from the customization and extension of the general FrameNet for the legal domain to the linking of the developed resource with already existing Legal Ontologies.
Ontologies have been used in recent decades as a conceptual modeling tool in different areas of knowledge. In Law, legal core ontologies (LCO) are proposed as a means of computational representation of essential concepts in order to... more
Ontologies have been used in recent decades as a conceptual modeling tool in different areas of knowledge. In Law, legal core ontologies (LCO) are proposed as a means of computational representation of essential concepts in order to construct legal domain ontologies and applications for the legal world. A relevant source of legal concepts is the legal theory. However, there are divergences between legal theories about what is law. This divergence should be taken account by ontologists because of their consequences to the usefulness of the concepts. In the last decades, legal theories have proposed solutions for modern social claims. These legal theories have the potential of producing a LCO that is more suitable for the current society. An example of these theories is Alexy's Theory of Fundamental Rights. In this paper, we explore an initial ontological model for rights based on Alexy's Theory of Fundamental Rights in order to build a consistent LCO grounded in Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). We aim to build up this LCO such that it can become a basis for building domain ontologies, languages, knowledge bases, and applications of the legal world.
