Formalising Legal Knowledge of Sri Lankan Civil Appellate High Court Domain from Ontological Perspective

Chaminda Liyanage, Tharaka Ilayperuma*, Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige, Faiza A. Bukhsh

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Abstract

Legal ontologies are used to support structuring concepts and relationships in the legal domain. In this study, we focus on the Sri Lankan Civil Appellate High Court (CAHC) domain and investigate the problem of managing the domain knowledge by building a domain ontology. To answer this problem, in this paper, we propose ontology to represent legal domain knowledge in the Sri Lankan CAHC domain. We use Methontology as the ontology development methodology and the Knowledge Representation (KR) ontology to formalise the CAHC domain concepts and to draw relationships between them. The developed ontology’s ability to appropriately model the CAHC domain is evaluated by using a set of anonymized real cases. We believe that the results of this study will benefit knowledge management efforts especially in the Sri Lankan legal context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Conceptual Modeling
Subtitle of host publicationER 2023 Workshops, CMLS, CMOMM4FAIR, EmpER, JUSMOD, OntoCom, QUAMES, and SmartFood, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6–9, 2023, Proceedings
EditorsTiago Prince Sales, Giancarlo Guizzardi, João Araújo, José Borbinha
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages189-194
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-47112-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-47111-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2023 - Congress Center of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 6 Nov 20239 Nov 2023
Conference number: 42
https://er2023.inesc-id.pt/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume14319
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2023
Abbreviated titleER
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period6/11/239/11/23
Internet address

Keywords

  • Civil Appellate Domain
  • KR ontology
  • Legal Ontology
  • Methontology
  • 2024 OA procedure

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