The Implementation of Hohfeldian Legal Concepts with Semantic Web Technologies
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چکیده
This research explores how and to what extent Semantic Web techniques can implement Hohfeldian legal concepts. Laws and regulations are forms of rules in natural language. Because laws are objective and formal, they are suitable for specification with formal logic. Hohfeldian legal concepts are an important tool for the explicit creation of normative legal relationships between the parties. The results of this study show that it is possible for legal requirements based on Hohfeldian legal concepts to be expressed with Semantic Web techniques. For the different Hohfeldian legal concepts, we work out a generic solution within a case study. This work shows that global qualification regarding whether or not a particular action is allowed should not only be determined on the basis of the relevant Hohfeldian legal concepts, but also by taking conditional statements into account.
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