Adjectival semantics and its representation in a legal ontology

Authors

  • Anderson Bertoldi
  • Rove Luiza de Oliveira Chishman
  • Isa Mara da Rosa Alves

Abstract

This paper is part of some studies we have made about legal domain adjectives. We aim at formalizing and including these adjectives in a legal ontology, checking the possibility of this part-of-speech to contribute to the improvement of the legal information retrieval systems. In this paper we discuss the difficulties in including adjectives in a legal ontology, as well as the validity of the adjectival meaning to the information retrieval. Our approach to the adjectives was based on semantic relations. Our future objective is to group them under top-level concepts and interconnect this ontology to other legal ontologies. To this analyses we use six legal texts collected via web from the Instituto das Tecnologias de Informação na Justiça of Portugal.

Key words: adjectives, lexical semantics, ontologies, information retrieval.

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2021-05-27

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Bertoldi, A., Chishman, R. L. de O., & Alves, I. M. da R. (2021). Adjectival semantics and its representation in a legal ontology. Calidoscópio, 4(3), 189–199. Retrieved from https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/6004

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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2006): September/December

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