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Requirements of Legal Knowledge Management Systems to Aid Normative Reasoning in Specialist Domains

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Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges of legal norms in specialist domains - the interplay between industry/professional standards and legal norms, the information gap between legal and specialist domains and the need for interpretation at all stages of compliance - design, operation and justification. We propose extensions to the Eunomos legal knowledge management tool to help address the information gap, with particular attention to aligning norms with operational procedures, and the use of domain-specific specialist ontologies from multiple domains to help users understand and reason with norms on specialist topics. The paper focuses mainly on medical law and clinical guidelines.

This research is part of the research project ITxLaw supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo.

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    http://www.ittig.cnr.it

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    http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/snomed-ct0/

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    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

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    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_faq.html

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    http://agreementmaker.org/

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  1. Department of Informatics, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Alessio Antonini & Guido Boella

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Joris Hulstijn

  3. ICR, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Llio Humphreys

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Antonini, A., Boella, G., Hulstijn, J., Humphreys, L. (2014). Requirements of Legal Knowledge Management Systems to Aid Normative Reasoning in Specialist Domains. In: Nakano, Y., Satoh, K., Bekki, D. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10061-6_12

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