This research explores how and to what extent Semantic Web techniques can implement Hohfeldian legal concepts. Laws and regulations are forms of rules in natural language. Because laws are objective and formal, they are suitable for specification with formal logic. Hohfeldian legal concepts are an important tool for the explicit creation of normative legal relationships between the parties. The...

The importance of language and terminology for the law and the jurisprudence is beyond question because language is a central subject of a lawyer's work (Hatz 1963, Salton/McGill 1983). The particularity of the legal language is the use of a special vocabulary of legal terms which are used to express definite concepts. The presence of a particular term has specific connotations. Legal thinking ...

Accessing legal regulations and legislation on the web should be improved by semantic annotation of legal rules. However, producing this type of annotations is challenging because legal language is difficult to parse automatically and any annotation involves a part of interpretation. We argue that an extended controlled language must be defined to address that issue. We present aspects of a con...

the prophetic action and behavior as a part of tradition is regarded as a kind of evidence and legal plea. explanation of the concept and nature of the prophet’s (s.a.w.) action and the two sects’ analysis of this rational reasoning in the process of inference of legal ruling has an important status in islamic jurisprudence. given the existing views, there are two general approaches to the prop...

Maintaining regulatory compliance is an increasing concern. Legal Knowledge Management systems could support the work of compliance managers. However, there are challenges to overcome, of interpreting legal knowledge and mapping it onto business processes. In this discussion paper we determine requirements for Legal Knowledge Management systems that can handle these challenges. We argue that an...

Legal reasoning is one application of large-scale knowledge information processing, where arti cial intelligence, natural language processing, databases and other technologies are integrated. It is the target for the next-generation of databases. In order to investigate whether or not the deductive object oriented database (DOOD) language/systemQUIXOT E is e ective in legal reasoing, we are bot...