Text-based Legal Ontology Enrichment

The acquisition of knowledge from text is an incomplete and incremental process. When anchored to a particular knowledge model it provides potentially useful information to the legal expert in the form of new concepts and relations, in order to improve the domain coverage. This paper explores the feasibility of various legal text-based ontology enrichment techniques, and discusses the transformation of lexical knowledge to an ontological structure.

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