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Representing Law in Partial Information Structures

Representing Law in Partial Information Structures This paper presents a new language for isomorphic representations of legalknowledge in feature structures. The language includes predefinedstructures based on situation theory for common-sense categories, andpredefined structures based on Van Kralingen‘s (1995) frame-based conceptualmodelling language for legal rules. It is shown that the flexibility of thefeature-structure formalism can exploited to allow for structure-preservingrepresentations of non-primitive concepts, and to enable various types ofinteraction and cross-reference between language elements. A fragment of theDutch Opium Act is used to illustrate how modelling and reasoning proceed in practice. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence and Law Springer Journals

Representing Law in Partial Information Structures

Peek, Niels
Artificial Intelligence and Law , Volume 5 (4) – Sep 19, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law; Philosophy of Law; Legal Aspects of Computing; Information Storage and Retrieval
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0924-8463
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1572-8382
DOI
10.1023/A:1008238332032
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Abstract

This paper presents a new language for isomorphic representations of legalknowledge in feature structures. The language includes predefinedstructures based on situation theory for common-sense categories, andpredefined structures based on Van Kralingen‘s (1995) frame-based conceptualmodelling language for legal rules. It is shown that the flexibility of thefeature-structure formalism can exploited to allow for structure-preservingrepresentations of non-primitive concepts, and to enable various types ofinteraction and cross-reference between language elements. A fragment of theDutch Opium Act is used to illustrate how modelling and reasoning proceed in practice.

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Published: Sep 19, 2004

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