A Method for Conceptualising Legal Domains. An Example from the Dutch Unemployment Benefits Act |
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Authors: | Pepijn Visser Trevor Bench-Capon Jaap van den Herik |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, United Kingdom;(2) Department of Law and Computer Science, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9521, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands (E-mail |
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Abstract: | There has been much talk of the need to build intermediate models of the expertise required preparatory to constructing a knowledge-based system in the legal domain. Such models offer advantages for verification, validation, maintenance and reuse. As yet, however, few such models have been reported at a useful level of detail. In this paper we describe a method for conceptualising legal domains as well as its application to a substantial fragment of the Dutch Unemployment Benefits Act (DUBA).We first discuss the intermediate models (called expertise models), then present a three-stage method for their construction, drawing on the CommonKADS work in knowledge acquisition, conceptual models of statute law, and the KANT method of knowledge analysis. Subsequently, we describe how these techniques were applied to the DUBA, and provide detailed examples of the resulting model. Finally, conclusions on the framework and guidelines are given as well as means of recording and presenting the various design choices. |
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Keywords: | conceptual models system design ontologies |
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