Legal Power-Subjection Relations: Ontological Analysis and Modeling Pattern

Relations, Legal and Otherwise

An ontological analysis of states: Organizations vs. legal persons

The purpose of this paper is to argue states are not organizations, but rather the objective legal persons of international law. The ontological similarities and differences between states and organizations are examined, but, by drawing upon literature in political geography and international law, ultimately shows that states cannot be organizations based in large part on the fact that states c...

A Pattern for the Representation of Legal Relations in a Legal Core Ontology

This paper extends UFO-L, a Legal Core Ontology (LCO) based on Robert Alexy’s Theory of Constitutional Rights and grounded on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). We present the first pattern of UFO-L’s patterns catalogue and its application. The general idea is to use these ontological patterns to support the modeling of legal concepts in conceptual models of the legal domain. Moreover, ou...

Identification of Ontological Relations Using Formal Concept Analysis

In this paper we present an approach for the automatic identification of relations in ontologies of restricted domain. We use the evidence found in a corpus associated to the same domain of the ontology for determining the validity of the ontological relations. Our approach employs formal concept analysis, a method used for the analysis of data, but in this case used for relations discovery in ...

Ontological modeling

This survey is aimed at analyzing some among the most relevant ontological modeling approaches. The semantic role of ontologies is emphasized. Classification of ontological models and languages focusing on their basic features is presented. Examples of applications of ontologies in different areas are also provided.