Automated Legal Assessment in OWL 2

Authors:
Saskia van de Ven;Joost Breuker;Rinke Hoekstra;Lars Wortel
Affiliations:
Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2008: The Twenty-First Annual Conference
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper we describe HARNESS, a legal knowledge-based system that is developed in the context of ESTRELLA. This system is primarily aimed at the task of legal assessment, i.e. determining whether some case violates and/or complies with legal norms. We explain how the sound and complete reasoning provided by OWL-DL reasoners is exploited by a careful representation of norms, using examples from law on taxation of gifts. We describe a plugin for Protégé 4 that enables easy experimentation for this system, powered by Pellet.