In this paper we present the motivation, use cases, design principles, abstract syntax, and
initial core of LegalRuleML. The LegalRuleML-core is sufficiently rich for expressing legal …

Ontology-driven systems with reasoning capabilities in the legal field are now better
understood. Legal concepts are not discrete, but make up a dynamic continuum between …

Legal texts are the foundational resource where to discover rules and norms that feed into
different concrete (often XML-based) Web applications. Legislative documents provide …

This chapter aims to collocate Akoma Ntoso into the historical scenario of the legal XML
schemas and to define the pillars of the Akoma Ntoso architecture. Second goal is to present …

This research aims to define an integrated strategy for modelling legal norms in the criminal
domain for supporting the legal reasoning. For this purpose, OWL-DL criminal domain …

The XML documents that represent legal resources contain information and legal
knowledge that belong to many distinct conceptual layers. This paper shows how the Akoma …

This paper describes the construction of the LOTED2 ontology for the representation of
European public procurement notices. LOTED2 follows initiatives around the creation of …

Modern software has been an integral part of everyday activities in many disciplines and
application contexts. Introducing intelligent automation by leveraging artificial intelligence …

The article introduces JudO, an OWL2 ontology library of legal knowledge that relies on the
metadata contained in judicial documents. JudO represents the interpretations performed by …

Several XML-based standards have been proposed for describing rules (RuleML, RIF,
SWRL, SBVR, etc.), or specific dialects (RuleML family [1, 2]). In 2009, the Legal Knowledge …