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Legal Ontology Construction Using ATOB Algorithm

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Ontology is a knowledge representation technique that can be applied in many areas such as information retrieval. Ontology construction is a tedious job and time consuming task for law experts. This paper proposes a system framework called ATOB that can automatically generate a seed ontology and extend the ontology using ant colony algorithm. Two ontologies are created by ATOB system which are succession law ontology and family law ontology. We compare the performance of these ontologies with the ontologies manually created by law experts in our previous system (TLOE) and found that ATOB provides satisfactory result.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Vi-sit Boonchom & Nuanwan Soonthornphisaj

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 60-967, Poznań, Poland

    Krzysztof Węcel

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Boonchom, Vs., Soonthornphisaj, N. (2010). Legal Ontology Construction Using ATOB Algorithm. In: Abramowicz, W., Tolksdorf, R., Węcel, K. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15402-7_33

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