About

There exists a gap concerning the understanding of the knowledge from a particular domain between a domain expert and a knowledge engineer, who models such domain knowledge – often in a structured, formal language – for its use in (semi-/) automated reasoning. Also, such knowledge representations modeled by the knowledge engineer are not generally automatically reusable outside the specific context for which the knowledge representation was originally developed. Such a problem can be easily seen in legal domain, wherein, the cost associated with not reducing such gaps is substantially high.

KR4IPLaw system is built based on the KR4IPLaw-framework. The falt_aboutramework is loosely coupled to OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA). KR4IPLaw encompasses tools and techniques for modeling elementary legal rules and its associated pragmatics starting from an informal substantive law.

While, the system can be used independently for reasoning legal rules, KR4IPLaw can also been seen as an apriori system to any legal argumentation system.

Team

Legal Informatics Team:

Corporate Semantic Web Team:

  • Dr. Kia Teymourian
  • Dr. Zhili Zhao
  • Dr. Naouel Karam
  • Alexandru Todor
  • Mohammed  Almashraee
  • Ralph Schaefermaier