Framing a Knowledge Base for a Legal Expert System Dealing with Indeterminate Concepts

Despite decades of development of formal tools for modelling legal knowledge and reasoning, the creation of a fully fledged legal decision support system remains challenging. Among those challenges, such system requires an enormous amount of commonsense knowledge to derive legal expertise. This pape...

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Main Authors: Michał Araszkiewicz, Agata Łopatkiewicz, Adam Zienkiewicz, Tomasz Zurek
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/985425
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description Despite decades of development of formal tools for modelling legal knowledge and reasoning, the creation of a fully fledged legal decision support system remains challenging. Among those challenges, such system requires an enormous amount of commonsense knowledge to derive legal expertise. This paper describes the development of a negotiation decision support system (the Parenting Plan Support System or PPSS) to support parents in drafting an agreement (the parenting plan) for the exercise of parental custody of minor children after a divorce is granted. The main objective here is to discuss problems of framing an intuitively appealing and computationally efficient knowledge base that can adequately represent the indeterminate legal concept of the well-being of the child in the context of continental legal culture and of Polish law in particular. In addition to commonsense reasoning, interpretation of such a concept demands both legal expertise and significant professional knowledge from other domains.
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spelling doaj-art-e22a55159a09451d859b83bf22f6f95e2025-02-03T07:23:33ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2015-01-01201510.1155/2015/985425985425Framing a Knowledge Base for a Legal Expert System Dealing with Indeterminate ConceptsMichał Araszkiewicz0Agata Łopatkiewicz1Adam Zienkiewicz2Tomasz Zurek3Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, PolandFaculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Ulica Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, PolandFaculty of Law and Administration, University of Warmia and Mazury, Ulica Warszawska 98, 10-702 Olsztyn, PolandInstitute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Ulica Akademicka 9, 20-033 Lublin, PolandDespite decades of development of formal tools for modelling legal knowledge and reasoning, the creation of a fully fledged legal decision support system remains challenging. Among those challenges, such system requires an enormous amount of commonsense knowledge to derive legal expertise. This paper describes the development of a negotiation decision support system (the Parenting Plan Support System or PPSS) to support parents in drafting an agreement (the parenting plan) for the exercise of parental custody of minor children after a divorce is granted. The main objective here is to discuss problems of framing an intuitively appealing and computationally efficient knowledge base that can adequately represent the indeterminate legal concept of the well-being of the child in the context of continental legal culture and of Polish law in particular. In addition to commonsense reasoning, interpretation of such a concept demands both legal expertise and significant professional knowledge from other domains.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/985425
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