A Criminal Domain Ontology for Modelling Legal Norms

摘要

This work discusses an ontological model for legal norms of the criminal domain. An ontology-based modelling approach is proposed for this purpose. The approach tends to build a criminal domain ontology and then formalize the legal rules based on it. A middle-out approach is applied for building the criminal domain ontology based on ontology reuse and modularization processes. This approach tends to simplify the complexity and difficulty of ontology building process by reusing foundational and legal core ontologies.