Semantic WebApplication: A Legal Appl Case Study

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Semantic WebApplication A Legal Appl Case Study

• Atilla ELÇI
• Dept. of Computer Engineering
• Eastern Mediterranean University

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SemTech Application Case Study

• A legal case study
• Davies et al. Ch. 12.

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Judicial User Profile

• Overloaded
• Have some IT skills

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Ontologies for Legal Knowledge

• Survey of Legal Ontologies
• LLD Lang for Legal Discourse
• NOR Norma
• LFU Functional Ontology for Law
• FBO Frame-Based Ontology for Law
• LRI Core Legal Ontology
• IKF-IF-LEX Ontology for Norm Comparison
• See Table in Figure 12.3.
• Ontologies for Professional Knowledge
• For Pro legal Knowledge
• For judicial Knowledge
• SemTech benefits and Methodology
• Ontology learning
• Construction Methodology
• Ontology Integration

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Architecture

• IuriService Prototype
• Functionalities
• Architecture
• Initial Results

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Conclusions

• Automation cases in Turkey
• Early on payroll
• Of late Judicial, population/citizenship DB appls
• Recent years e-Gov but isolated systems.
• Newly postals with linked systems
• SemWebTech not yet!

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References

• John Davies, Rudi Studer, Paul Warren (Editors)
  Semantic Web Technologies Trends and Research in
  Ontology-based Systems, John Wiley Sons (July
  11, 2006). ISBN 0470025964. Ch. 12. pp.
  259-280.
• W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
  Working Group home page.
• W3C SW Applications Demos Task Force.
• SemanticWebDOAPBulletinBoard for project
  descriptions.
• W3C Semantic Web Tools Wiki page
• Check Jena, SemWeb, Protégé, Swoop, etc.