Towards Construction of Legal Ontology for Korean Legislation

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

2020

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Thuy Phan T., Lam H., Hashmi M. and Choi Y. (2020). Towards Construction of Legal Ontology for Korean Legislation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 86-97. DOI: 10.5220/0010122400860097

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod20,
author={Thi Thuy Thuy Phan and Ho-Pun Lam and Mustafa Hashmi and Yongsun Choi},
title={Towards Construction of Legal Ontology for Korean Legislation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD},
year={2020},
pages={86-97},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010122400860097},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD
TI - Towards Construction of Legal Ontology for Korean Legislation
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Thuy Phan T.
AU - Lam H.
AU - Hashmi M.
AU - Choi Y.
PY - 2020
SP - 86
EP - 97
DO - 10.5220/0010122400860097
PB - SciTePress