Open AccessIssues on legal knowledge bases traceability
Author(s) -
Laima Paliulionienė,
Albertas Čaplinskas
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
lietuvos matematikos rinkinys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2335-898X
pISSN - 0132-2818
DOI - 10.15388/lmr.2007.24077
Subject(s) - traceability , requirements traceability , trace (psycholinguistics) , tracing , computer science , software engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , management science , software , requirements engineering , engineering , requirement , programming language , business , linguistics , philosophy
Requirements traceability is used in many disciplines including system and software engineering. Usually traces are used to describe and follow the life of a requirement, in both a forward and backward directions. Traceability problems are faced in legal knowledge bases, too. However, in this case legal statements should be traced instead of requirements. Traces required to trace legal statements are specific in many aspects, therefore requirements tracing methods cannot be applied directly. The paper discusses the problems of traceability in legal knowledge bases and investigates the applicability of traceability matrices to solve these problems.