Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment

Biralatei Fawei; Adam Wyner; Jeff Z. Pan; Martin Kollingbaum

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21

Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment

Biralatei Fawei, Adam Wyner^*, Jeff Z. Pan, Martin Kollingbaum

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Abstract

Law is an explicit system of rules to govern the behaviour of people. Legal practitioners must learn to apply legal knowledge to the facts at hand. The United States Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is a professional test of legal knowledge, where passing indicates that the examinee understands how to apply the law. This paper describes an initial attempt to model and implement the automatic application of legal knowledge using a rule-based approach. An NLP tool extracts information (e.g. named entities and syntactic triples) to instantiate an ontology relative to concepts and relations; ontological elements are associated with legal rules written in SWRL to draw inferences to an exam question. The preliminary results on a small sample are promising. However, the main development is the methodology and identification of key issues for future analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems
Editors	Ugo Pagallo, Monica Palmirani, Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Serena Villata
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	317-324
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-00178-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-00177-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	10791
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Keywords

Law
Legal ontologies

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Fawei, B., Wyner, A., Pan, J. Z., & Kollingbaum, M. (2018). Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment. In U. Pagallo, M. Palmirani, P. Casanovas, G. Sartor, & S. Villata (Eds.), AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems (pp. 317-324). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10791). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21

Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment. / Fawei, Biralatei; Wyner, Adam; Pan, Jeff Z. et al.
AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. ed. / Ugo Pagallo; Monica Palmirani; Pompeu Casanovas; Giovanni Sartor; Serena Villata. Cham: Springer , 2018. p. 317-324 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10791).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Fawei, B, Wyner, A, Pan, JZ & Kollingbaum, M 2018, Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment. in U Pagallo, M Palmirani, P Casanovas, G Sartor & S Villata (eds), AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10791, Springer , Cham, pp. 317-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21

Fawei B, Wyner A, Pan JZ, Kollingbaum M. Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment. In Pagallo U, Palmirani M, Casanovas P, Sartor G, Villata S, editors, AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Cham: Springer . 2018. p. 317-324. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21

Fawei, Biralatei ; Wyner, Adam ; Pan, Jeff Z. et al. / Using Legal Ontologies with Rules for Legal Textual Entailment. AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. editor / Ugo Pagallo ; Monica Palmirani ; Pompeu Casanovas ; Giovanni Sartor ; Serena Villata. Cham : Springer , 2018. pp. 317-324 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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