Marcello Ceci
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Combining Ontology and Rules to Model Judicial Interpretation
2012, Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
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Abstract
This research aims to define an integrated methodology for modelling judgments, starting from legal texts and capturing not only structural parts but also arguments used by judges to reach conclusions. The goal is to build a complete ontology framework capable of detecting and modelling knowledge from the judgement's text. The formalized judgements provide the necessary metadata for the rule layer to enable argumentation towards the acceptance or rejection of a given interpretation. For pursuing this goal it is important to integrate the legal ontology construction with a rule formalization following legal reasoning-oriented theory and defeasible logics, just like the Carneades application (presented here) follows Walton's argumentation theory. The XML interchange uses OWL, RuleML, and the emerging LegalRuleML.
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