OntoLaw - Ontology based legal management and information retrieval expert system

Abstract

This manuscript proposes an ontological approach for legal aspects in the Romanian juridical system, aimed to help legal professionals to easily find legislative information. The necessity of creating a legal ontology specific to the Romanian juridical context resides in the fact that, although different state institutions hold various databases storing documents, there is a lack of centralization of these data. Creating a shareable ontology to which all legal institutions would have access might be an up to date solution to this situation. This paper presents the legal ontology OntoLaw, together with a legal management and information retrieval expert system called OntoLawApp.