In the legal domain, ontologies organize legal concepts and their relationships, while knowledge graphs connect these concepts to specific entities in legal documents. This study proposes a solution for integrating ontology and knowledge graph, called Legal-Onto model, to construct a knowledge base of an intelligent retrieval system in the legal domain. The Legal-Onto model combines ontology as the conceptual layer and knowledge graphs as the implementation layer for representing the content of legal documents. This relational model is integrated with a structure of knowledge graph to identify relations between concepts and entities extracted from ontology in the determined domain. Moreover, this research addresses inherent challenges in semantic-based knowledge-driven search. The specific objective is to accurately extract relevant information from legal documents to respond to entered queries. The experimental results show that this method is more effective than state-of-the-art methods in natural language processing and large language models, which are without specific legal domain knowledge.
Journal:Informatica
Volume 8, Issue 1 (1997), pp. 139–152
Abstract
ProObj is a Prolog based system for knowledge representation which was strongly influenced by object-oriented and frame-based systems. The paper shortly describes ProObj and then presents a classification mechanism which is based on the ideas of classifiers in KL-ONE like systems.
As a new and very flexible feature we present a user-directed control of classification process. The ProObj classifier gives the user the possibility to guide the classification process by excluding attributes and facets – elements of our representation formalism – from being considered in the classification. By this mechanism we gain a substantial improvement of the efficiency of the classification process. Furthermore, it allows a more flexible and adequate modelling of a knowledge domain. It is possible to build a knowledge base under a particular view where only those attributes of concepts are considered for classification which seem to be relevant for the structure of the domain hierarchy.