Challenges and Related Issues for Building Chinese Legal Ontology

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10.2991/meic-15.2015.287How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Legal ontology; fuzziness of law; three-stage deductive reasoning; case guidance system; legal module

Abstract

Legal ontologies have made significant progress during the past 20 years, however, few of these ontologies have gone beyond the stage of advanced and refined prototypes. When building legal ontology, the challenges are not only from the deficiency of the ontology techniques, but also from the inner legal systems. The paper analyzes the challenges for building Chinese legal ontology, such as the ambiguity of legal language, the deficiency of three-stage inference for court decisions and the limited role of cases in China. Based on the challenges, the proposed legal ontology should be circular ontology between normative documents and judicial cases. In addition, we discuss the issues for constructing legal ontology: the role of legal ontology, legal modules and basic elements for legal normative document.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ni Zhang
AU  - Ping Wang
AU  - Yifei Pu
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Challenges and Related Issues for Building Chinese Legal Ontology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1260
EP  - 1265
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/meic-15.2015.287
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