TY - GEN
T1 - Multilevel legal ontologies
AU - Ajani, Gianmaria
AU - Boella, Guido
AU - Lesmo, Leonardo
AU - Martin, Marco
AU - Mazzei, Alessandro
AU - Radicioni, Daniele P.
AU - Rossi, Piercarlo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In order to manage the conceptual representation of European law we have proposed the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further issues that emerged during the testing and use of the LTS, and how we took them into account in the new release of the system. In particular, we address the problem of representing interpretation of terms besides the definitions occurring in the directives, the problem of normative change, and the process of planning legal reforms of European law. We show how to include into the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus the Acquis Principles - which have been sketched by scholars in European Private Law from the so-called Acquis communautaire -, how to take the temporal dimension into account in ontologies, and how to apply natural language processing techniques to the legal texts being annotated in the LTS.
AB - In order to manage the conceptual representation of European law we have proposed the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further issues that emerged during the testing and use of the LTS, and how we took them into account in the new release of the system. In particular, we address the problem of representing interpretation of terms besides the definitions occurring in the directives, the problem of normative change, and the process of planning legal reforms of European law. We show how to include into the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus the Acquis Principles - which have been sketched by scholars in European Private Law from the so-called Acquis communautaire -, how to take the temporal dimension into account in ontologies, and how to apply natural language processing techniques to the legal texts being annotated in the LTS.
KW - European directives
KW - Formal ontologies
KW - Multilingual legal ontologies
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77953731890
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-12837-0_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-12837-0_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953731890
SN - 364212836X
SN - 9783642128363
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 136
EP - 154
BT - Semantic Processing of Legal Texts - Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language
T2 - Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts
Y2 - 27 May 2008 through 27 May 2008
ER -