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Decidable Reasoning on Provisions and Norms for Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Compliance

  • Author: Enrico Francesconi
  • Category of articles: Legal Informatics
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Italy
  • Field of law: Legal Informatics, Cloud-Computing, Big Data, Open Data & Open Government, Advanced Legal Informatics Systems and Applications, IT-Compliance
  • Citation: Enrico Francesconi, Decidable Reasoning on Provisions and Norms for Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Compliance, in: Jusletter IT 26 September 2019
The development of legal reasoning using decidable fragments of Semantic Web languages is essential to guarantee the computational tractability in the in the Linked Open Data cloud. This paper introduces a framework for legal knowledge representation and reasoning based on the distinction between the concepts of provision and norm, suited for different kinds of legal reasoning: legal provisions retrieval and norm compliance, respectively. The proposed framework allows the addressed types of reasoning to be implemented using OWL 2 decidable profiles and reasoners. Examples of decidable reasoning within the proposed framework are presented and tested.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Related Work
  • 3. Provisions and Norms
  • 4. Modeling Provisions for advanced legal Provisions Accessibility
  • 4.1. Provisions R1 and R2 representation and reasoning
  • 5. Modeling Norms for legal Compliance Checking
  • 5.1. Norm R1 representation and facts Compliance Checking
  • 5.2. Norm R2 representation and facts Compliance Checking
  • 6. Conclusions and future Developments

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