Towards construction of legal ontology for korean legislation

Thi Thuy Phan, Ho Pun Lam, Mustafa Hashmi, Yongsun Choi

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Abstract

Automating information extraction from legal documents and formalising them into a machine understandable format has long been an integral challenge to legal reasoning. Most approaches in the past consist of highly complex solutions that use annotated syntactic structures and grammar to distil rules. The current research trend is to utilise state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) approaches to automate these tasks, with minimum human interference. In this paper, based on its functional aspects, we propose a legal taxonomy of semantic types in Korean legislation, such as definitional provision, deeming provision, penalty, obligation, permission, prohibition, etc. In addition to this, a NLP classifier has been developed to facilitate the automated legal norms classification process and an overall F1 score of 0.97 has been achieved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKEOD
EditorsDavid Aveiro, Jan Dietz, Joaquim Filipe
PublisherSciTePress
Pages86-97
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9789897584749
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2020 - Part of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2 Nov 20204 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameIC3K 2020 - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Volume2

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2020 - Part of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period2/11/204/11/20

Keywords

  • Korean legislation
  • Legal norms classification
  • Legal taxonomy
  • Semantic types

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