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Article

Towards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws

by
Fred Freitas
1,
Zacharias Candeias, Jr
2 and
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
3
1
Federal University of Pernambuco, Informatics Center, Recife, Brazil
2
Information Technology Agency for the State of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
3
University of Mannheim, Germany
J. Theor. Appl. Electron. Commer. Res. 2011, 6(1), 112-116; https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008
Submission received: 28 July 2010 / Revised: 15 November 2010 / Accepted: 22 December 2010 / Published: 1 April 2011
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Abstract

Official documents, and particularly legal ones like law codes, often contain ambiguities and/or inconsistencies, due to linguistic problems like polysemy, as well as ontological problems like underspecification, disagreements and/or false agreements. Such problems can be identified by formalizing the terminology of a domain in terms of an ontology. We show this phenomenon in a particular domain, the definition of different classes of vehicles. Defining accurately these different vehicle types shed light on some of these semantic deficiencies present in two Brazilian legal codes responsible for defining vehicles’ categories in an unambiguous manner for many purposes, e.g. tax calculations, and, more importantly, to make egovernment systems interoperate while taking laws into account in a Semantic Web scenario. In this work, we define a framework linking the linguistic and conceptual problems to semantic deficiencies and show how these deficiencies were identified during the vehicles’ ontology construction.
Keywords: Ontology-based analysis of texts; Semantic deficiencies; Vehicles, E-government; Law; Ontology engineering Ontology-based analysis of texts; Semantic deficiencies; Vehicles, E-government; Law; Ontology engineering

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Freitas, F.; Candeias, Z., Jr; Stuckenschmidt, H. Towards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws. J. Theor. Appl. Electron. Commer. Res. 2011, 6, 112-116. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008

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Freitas F, Candeias Z Jr, Stuckenschmidt H. Towards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. 2011; 6(1):112-116. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008

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Freitas, Fred, Zacharias Candeias, Jr, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. 2011. "Towards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws" Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 6, no. 1: 112-116. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008

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Freitas, F., Candeias, Z., Jr, & Stuckenschmidt, H. (2011). Towards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 6(1), 112-116. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008

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