Legal ontologies in knowledge engineering and information management

Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-277

  Breuker, Joost ^a   Valente, André ^b,c   Winkels, Radboud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Knowledge Systems Ventures   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common sense ontology; Legal core ontologies; Legal reasoning

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMMON-SENSE ONTOLOGY; LEGAL CORE ONTOLOGIES; LEGAL REASONING;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646718403     PISSN: 09248463     EISSN: 15728382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10506-006-0002-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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