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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems
Subtitle of host publicationAICOL VI-X 2015–2017
EditorsUgo Pagallo, Monica Palmirani, Pompeu Casanovas, Giovanni Sartor, Serena Villata
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages317-324
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-00178-0
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-00177-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Oct 2018
EventVIII Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems - King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Duration: 12 Jun 201712 Jun 2017
http://www.aicol.eu/?page_id=247

Publication series

Name Lecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Volume10791
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Workshop

WorkshopVIII Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems
Abbreviated titleAICOL 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period12/06/1712/06/17
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