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
Subtitle of host publication	AICOL VI-X 2015–2017
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
Event	VIII Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems - King's College London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Jun 2017 → 12 Jun 2017 http://www.aicol.eu/?page_id=247

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Volume	10791
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Workshop

Workshop	VIII Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems
Abbreviated title	AICOL 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	12/06/17 → 12/06/17
Internet address	http://www.aicol.eu/?page_id=247

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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: AICOL VI-X 2015–2017 (pp. 317-324). ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10791). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_21

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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: AICOL VI-X 2015–2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10791, Springer, Cham, pp. 317-324, VIII Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity of Legal Systems, London, United Kingdom, 12/06/17. 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: AICOL VI-X 2015–2017. ed. / Ugo Pagallo; Monica Palmirani; Pompeu Casanovas; Giovanni Sartor; Serena Villata. Cham: Springer, 2018. p. 317-324 ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10791).

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