The current paper presents the “Fill the gap” project that aims to design a set of XML standards for modelling legal documents in the Semantic Web over time. The goal of the project is to design an information system using XML standards able to store in an XML-native database legal resources and legal rules in an integrated way for supporting legal knowledge engineers and end-users (e.g., publi...

Medical science is continually discovering new methods and techniques. Legal rules do not generally anticipate scientific developments. Courts of law are thus often confronted with factual situations for which no definite legal rules apply. The problem is based primarily in a legal system which draws from rule& and regulations formulated at a time when future developments in science were not an...

We have already developed a legal reasoning system by analogy based on a framework, called Goal-Dependent Abstraction (GDA), to detect similarities dependent on given goals. According to the framework, two legal concepts are regarded as similar ones, provided they share the same explanation of a legal purpose as the goal to be explained. Consequently, we can automatically capture similarities b...

This paper presents a visualization technique to assist legal experts in formalising their interpretation of legal texts in terms of regulatory requirements. (Semi-)automation of compliance processes requires a machine-readable version of legal requirements in a format that enables effective compliance assessment. The use of a semi-structured controlled natural language as an intermediate step ...