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Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology
Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert
[Handbook of Terminology 3] 2023
► pp. 542–567

The role of Semantic Web technologies in legal terminology

| Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
| Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
| Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
With the rise of Artificial Intelligence driven services and Natural Language Processing techniques, high quality terminological resources are more needed than ever. Still, substantial manual effort is involved in the generation of such resources and many of them are published in non-machine-readable formats, hindering their reuse. In this chapter, we analyse how the Semantic Web can help represent legal language resources and how its publication in open formats can contribute to its interoperability. Throughout the sections, we give an overview of the Semantic Web, review existing legal language resources and the semantic models used to represent them. We also offer a series of practical examples to show the advantages, encouraging users to adopt these conventions.
Keywords: legal terminology, semantic web, linguistic linked data
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Semantic Web at a glance
  • 3.The Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud
  • 4.Legal language resources in the Semantic Web
  • 5.Models to represent linguistic information
  • 6.Benefits of Linked Data for terminology resources
  • 7.Hands on: Practical examples
  • 8.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 1 December 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hot.3.rol1
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