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Ontology Modeling for Criminal Law

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Abstract

In the continental law system, more attention is paid to judicial interpretation to judge legal facts or actions than judicial precedents. Therefore, in the continental legal system, it is appropriate to express the law itself with knowledge such as legal ontologies or logical rules. To construct legal ontologies and rule-based methods, legal analysis by collaboration between legal experts and knowledge engineers should be preceded. This paper proposes a general model for designing criminal law ontologies and rules. First, we introduce the super-domain ontology that contains the common characteristics of criminal law. Then, we explain the rule design method of criminal law and present the application of the anti-graft act in Korea as an example.

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Notes

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    http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/56906_en.html.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-owl2-primer-20121211/.

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    https://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/.

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    http://www.estrellaproject.org/.

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    Pandekten-system begins with the general principles, followed by separate provisions governing particular areas of law.

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    http://elaw.klri.re.kr/kor_service/lawView.do?hseq=39287&lang=ENG.

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    http://www.oecd.org/corruption/oecdantibriberyconvention.htm.

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    KRW is the Korean currency.

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    http://elaw.klri.re.kr/kor_service/lawView.do?hseq=38891&lang=ENG.

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    Chiseung Soh, Seungtak Lim, Kihyun Hong & Young-Yik Rhim

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  2. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Soh, C., Lim, S., Hong, K., Rhim, YY. (2018). Ontology Modeling for Criminal Law. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_25

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