Open AccessViLO — A Core Ontology of Vietnamese Legal Documents
Author(s) -
Minh Duc Nguyen,
Giang H. Nguyen-Thi,
Cuong H. Nguyen-Dinh
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
vietnam journal of computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2196-8888
pISSN - 2196-8896
DOI - 10.1142/s2196888822500178
Subject(s) - ontology , computer science , vietnamese , upper ontology , process ontology , domain (mathematical analysis) , construct (python library) , knowledge management , data science , domain knowledge , epistemology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
Legal ontologies play a key role in various legal applications and have been broadly used by many stakeholders. Innovative systems and ontologies in the law hold potential to conduct legal research. With the needs for legal information management in smart applications, especially for Vietnamese law, it is vitally important to construct core legal ontologies for knowledge representation. This study proposes a core ontology for Vietnamese legal documents which covers general legal domain called as ViLO. The ViLO ontology mainly consists of related institutions of Vietnamese political system, types and structures of legal documents. The method of the NeOn-based collaborations among domain experts and ontology engineers was conducted to build up the ViLO ontology. Through FOCA-based validation results, the proposed method was shown to be effective and efficient. The resulting ontology was demonstrated to be reliable and enriched. The ViLO ontology is supposed to be a basis for further constructions of domain ontologies and artificial intelligence applications in Vietnamese law.