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Automatic Taxonomy Generation - A Use-Case in the Legal Domain
A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of
the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners
and researchers to access this information easier and faster to help with
compliance related issues. One way to approach this goal is in the form of a
taxonomy of legal concepts. While this task usually requires a manual
construction of terms and their relations by domain experts, this paper
describes a methodology to automatically generate a taxonomy of legal noun
concepts. We apply and compare two approaches on a corpus consisting of
statutory instruments for UK, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland laws.Comment: 9 page
Building validation tools for knowledge-based systems
The Expert Systems Validation Associate (EVA), a validation system under development at the Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center for more than a year, provides a wide range of validation tools to check the correctness, consistency and completeness of a knowledge-based system. A declarative meta-language (higher-order language), is used to create a generic version of EVA to validate applications written in arbitrary expert system shells. The architecture and functionality of EVA are presented. The functionality includes Structure Check, Logic Check, Extended Structure Check (using semantic information), Extended Logic Check, Semantic Check, Omission Check, Rule Refinement, Control Check, Test Case Generation, Error Localization, and Behavior Verification
Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases
In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification methods
to predict the law area and the decision of cases judged by the French Supreme
Court. We also investigate the influence of the time period in which a ruling
was made over the textual form of the case description and the extent to which
it is necessary to mask the judge's motivation for a ruling to emulate a
real-world test scenario. We report results of 96% f1 score in predicting a
case ruling, 90% f1 score in predicting the law area of a case, and 75.9% f1
score in estimating the time span when a ruling has been issued using a linear
Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier trained on lexical features.Comment: RANLP 201
An experiment with ontology mapping using concept similarity
This paper describes a system for automatically mapping between concepts in different ontologies. The motivation for the research stems from the Diogene project, in which the project's own ontology covering the ICT domain is mapped to external ontologies, in order that their associated content can automatically be included in the Diogene system. An approach involving measuring the similarity of concepts is introduced, in which standard Information Retrieval indexing techniques are applied to concept descriptions. A matrix representing the similarity of concepts in two ontologies is generated, and a mapping is performed based on two parameters: the domain coverage of the ontologies, and their levels of granularity. Finally, some initial experimentation is presented which suggests that our approach meets the project's unique set of requirements
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