The main statements of ontology theory and its implementation in the system of legal knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.20535/2411-1031.2016.4.2.109915Keywords:
Ontology, law, artificial intelligent, conceptualization, law domain.Abstract
The paper presents general information about a notion “ontology” historical derivation. Apart from this different ways of ontology term transformation for usage in artificial intelligence systems are analyzed. Ontology is regarded as a result of knowledge accumulation and association for clear representation the data about events, phenomena, general and special notions concerning society, laws and the world. Apart from this, ontology is developed to supply different information about the subject of interest. There are a number of ontologies, namely light weighing, top, domain ones and so on, which form a base for further knowledge based systems development and their application in combination with artificial intelligence and a set of databases for reasoning and making relevant decision. Ontologies have begun playing a particular role in law and legal theory for rule formalization, accepting court resolutions and providing information about precedents and unusual cases. In the paper the ontology design criteria are also given along with the peculiarities of their application in legal domain. The ontologies are being developed with special goal. However there are no arrangements about their contents and design. The main task which is to be followed in ontology creation deals with the strict and clear formulation of ontology essence, the link between different ontologies being anticipated.
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