As the (in) famous definition states:'An ontology is an explicit specification of a
conceptualization'. However, an ontology is also a philosophical theory of existence, a …

The opportunity to automate and monitor the execution of legal contracts is gaining
increasing interest in Business and Academia, thanks to the advent of smart contracts …

In this paper we describe a legal core ontology that is part of a generic architecture for legal
knowledge systems, which will enable the interchange of knowledge between existing legal …

Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse,
enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge …

In this paper we describe a legal core ontology that is part of the Legal Knowledge
Interchange Format: a knowledge representation formalism that enables the translation of …

A variety of legal documents are increasingly being made available in electronic format.
Automatic Information Search and Retrieval algorithms play a key role in enabling efficient …

Designed about ten years ago, the TERMINAE method and workbench for ontology
engineering from texts have been going on evolving since then. Our investigations integrate …

For more than a decade constructing ontologies for legal domains, we, at the Leibniz Center
for Law, felt really the need to develop a core ontology for law that would enable us to re-use …

Web service-based systems are built orchestrating loosely coupled, standardized, and
internetworked programs. If on the one hand, Web services address the interoperability …

Data protection, currently under the limelight at the European level, is undergoing a long
and complex reform that is finally approaching its completion. Consequently, there is an …