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The Legal Concepts and the Layman’s Terms Bridging the Gap through Ontology-Based Reasoning about Liability Ronny van Laarschot, Wouter van Steenbergen, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Arno R. Lodder & Frank van Harmelen. Arno R. Lodder CEDIRE – Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Legal Concepts and theLayman’s Terms
Bridging the Gap through Ontology-Based Reasoning about Liability
Ronny van Laarschot, Wouter van Steenbergen, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Arno R. Lodder & Frank van Harmelen
Arno R. LodderCEDIRE –
Centre for Electronic Dispute [email protected]
Computer/Law Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
http://best-project.nl BEST (2005-2008) - Using Semantic Web
technology to develop a system that helps litigants in determining BATNAs in damages disputes
AI Department & Computer/Law Institute Arno Lodder/Frank van Harmelen Postdoc – Michel Klein Ph.D student – Wouter van Steenbergen Msc. Student – Emiel Bruijntjes Scientific Programmer (2007-2008) Former members: Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Ronny van
Laarschot
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Background BEST
Frank van Harmelen: Semantic WebArno Lodder: Electronic Dispute resolution
1. Intelligent disclosure of case-law using Semantic Web technology (ontology-based search and navigation)
2. Help laymen in determing their position (BATNA)
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Domain scope
Liability casesTort/cases – norms regarding standards of
care
First filter: structure of codeliability
direct-liability(6.3.1 BW)
indirect-liability
liability for persons liability for objects
liability for employees(6:170 BW)
liability for children(6:169 BW)
liability for animals(6:179 BW)
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Challenge
How to bridge the gap: Legal terms Laymen terms
Annotate the case law corpus with legal terms
Focus on relations between actors and objects
Map legal ontology and laymen ontology
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Artikel 7:658 BW (aansprakelijkheid voor ongeval op werkplek)
Aansprakelijkheid, werkgever, arbeidsongevallen, maatregelen, voorkoming, werknemer, bedrijf, arbeid, werkzaamheden, werkomgeving, veilig, werkplek, veiligheidsmaatregelen, zorgverplichting, werkneemster, arbeidsongeschikt, werkomstandigheden, lokalen, werktuigen, gereedschappen, beroepsziekten, arbeidsovereenkomst, vrijwilliger, vrijwilligerswerk, werkverhouding, opzet, roekeloosheid, werkdruk, baas, directeur
Manually created list of relevant terms
Automatically generatedweighted index
Fingerprint
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Search results
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Preliminary result
Ontology helped to discover potential liable persons
school:organizationteacher:person
horse:object
ownes
employed
handles
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Future challenges
How to structure the legal domain What concepts How to link the concepts to laymen language
How to present the results
