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An ontological approach to support legal information modeling

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Support for information, knowledge exchange and share is a key issue in the information society. Coming into contact with global sharing of resources, mutual well-understood knowledge of intellectual property is worthy of attention. However, there is a lack of systematic information-modeling methodology for the issue; closely connected to this problem is that most of the intelligent legal systems are undesirable and ineffective for multinational semantic mapping of article information. We propose an ontology-guided approach that provides semantic primitive representation of legal information with intention perspective. The domain ontology we developed is used as a fundamental conceptual framework to maintain the consistency among diverse legal representation.

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  1. School of Computer Software, Tianjin University, China, Tianjin, China

    Wenhuan Lu

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    Naixue Xiong

  3. Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea

    Doo-Soon Park

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Lu, W., Xiong, N. & Park, DS. An ontological approach to support legal information modeling. J Supercomput 62, 53–67 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0647-8

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