Llio Humphreys
University of Luxembourg
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international conference on artificial intelligence and law | 2013
Guido Boella; Marijn Janssen; Joris Hulstijn; Llio Humphreys; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
Maintaining regulatory compliance is an increasing area of concern for business. Legal Knowledge Management systems that combine repositories of legislation with legal ontologies can support the work of in-house compliance managers. But there are challenges to overcome, of interpreting legal knowledge and mapping that knowledge onto business processes, and developing systems that can adequately handle the complexity with clarity and ease. In this paper we extend the Legal Knowledge Management system Eunomos to deal with alternative interpretations of norms connecting it with Business Process Management systems. Moreover, we propose a workflow involving the different roles in a company, which takes legal interpretation into account in mapping norms and processes, using Eunomos as a support.
Artificial Intelligence and Law | 2016
Guido Boella; Luigi Di Caro; Llio Humphreys; Livio Robaldo; Piercarlo Rossi; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
This paper describes the Eunomos software, an advanced legal document and knowledge management system, based on legislative XML and ontologies. We describe the challenges of legal research in an increasingly complex, multi-level and multi-lingual world and how the Eunomos software helps users cut through the information overload to get the legal information they need in an organized and structured way and keep track of the state of the relevant law on any given topic. Using NLP tools to semi-automate the lower-skill tasks makes this ambitious project a realistic commercial prospect as it helps keep costs down while at the same time allowing greater coverage. We describe the core system from workflow and technical perspectives, and discuss applications of the system for various user groups.
AICOL'11 Proceedings of the 25th IVR Congress conference on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems: models and ethical challenges for legal systems, legal language and legal ontologies, argumentation and software agents | 2011
Guido Boella; Llio Humphreys; Marco Martin; Piercarlo Rossi; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
We introduce the Eunomos software, an advanced legal document management system with terminology management. We describe the challenges of legal research in an increasingly complex, multi-level and multi-lingual world and how the Eunomos software helps expert users keep track of the state of the relevant law on any given topic. We will describe in particular the editorial process for building legal knowledge.
international conference on artificial intelligence and law | 2015
Guido Boella; Luigi Di Caro; Michele Graziadei; Loredana Cupi; Carlo Emilio Salaroglio; Llio Humphreys; Hristo Konstantinov; Kornel Marko; Livio Robaldo; Claudio Ruffini; Kiril Simov; Andrea Violato; Veli Stroetmann
In this paper we describe how the EUCases FP7 project is addressing the problem of lifting Legal Open Data to Linked Open Data to develop new applications for the legal information provision market by enriching structurally the documents (first of all with navigable references among legal texts) and semantically (with concepts from ontologies and classification). First we describe the social and economic need for breaking the accessibility barrier in legal information in the EU, then we describe the technological challenges and finally we explain how the EUCases project is addressing them by a combination of Human Language Technologies.
Archive | 2012
Guido Boella; Llio Humphreys; Marco Martin; Piercarlo Rossi; Leendert W. N. van der Torre; Andrea Violato
Legal ontology is one of the most researched areas of Artificial Intelligence & Law, but is less applied in the commercial world. This is mainly due to a historical focus on general purpose legal ontologies that do not capture the variety of definitions and interpretations that apply in different contexts, and a focus on automated extraction over manual verification in a domain where accuracy is of utmost importance. In this paper, we show how the use of a domain-specific ontology within a sophisticated legal monitoring software managed by legal experts can help compliance officers in banks and insurance companies comply with strict regulatory duties in a highly complex and constantly evolving area of law.
Revised Selected Papers of the AICOL 2013 International Workshops on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems - Volume 8929 | 2013
Guido Boella; Silvano Colombo Tosatto; Sepideh Ghanavati; Joris Hulstijn; Llio Humphreys; Robert Muthuri; André Rifaut; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
Business process compliance with regulations has been a topic of many research areas in Computer Science such as Requirements Engineering RE, Artificial Intelligence AI, Logic and Natural Language Processing NLP. This work aims to provide a systematic way of establishing and managing compliance to assist decision-making and reporting. Despite many notable advances, few systems deal adequately with legal interpretation and modeling norms in an expressive way that is well-integrated with business modeling practices. In this paper, we bring together two leading systems, Legal-URN and Eunomos, for a comprehensive compliance management solution.
international workshop on requirements engineering and law | 2014
Guido Boella; Llio Humphreys; Robert Muthuri; Piercarlo Rossi; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
This paper reviews existing approaches to representing legal knowledge for legal requirements engineering. Legal requirement methodologies are rarely developed together with legal practitioners, with the result that often approaches are based on a simplified view of law which prevents their acceptance by legal practitioners. In this paper, we analyse how legal practitioners build legal knowledge and possibilities for existing approaches in RELaw to mirror legal practice.
Applied Ontology | 2017
Gianmaria Ajani; Guido Boella; Luigi Di Caro; Livio Robaldo; Llio Humphreys; Sabrina Praduroux; Piercarlo Rossi; Andrea Violato
The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/AO-170174. This paper describes a new concept of legal ontology together with an ontology development tool, called European Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (ELTS). The tool is used to model the legal terminology created by the Uniform Terminology project on EU consumer protection law as an ontology. ELTS is not a formal ontology in the standard sense, i.e., an axiomatic ontology formalized, for instance, in description logic. Rather, it is a lightweight ontology, i.e. a knowledge base storing low-level legal concepts, connected via low-level semantic relations, and related to linguistic patterns that denote legal concepts in several languages spoken in the European Union (EU). In other words, ELTS is a multi-lingual and multi-jurisdictional terminological vocabulary enriched with concepts denoted by vocabulary entries, with semantic relations between different concepts. The choice of such an architecture is based on past studies in comparative law and is motivated by the need to reveal the differences between national systems within the EU. Past literature in comparative law highlights that axiomatic ontologies freeze legal knowledge in an unreal steadiness, i.e., they render it disconnected from legal practice. Much more flexibility is needed to make the knowledge base acceptable to legal practitioners. ELTS was developed together with legal practitioners on the basis of the comparative view of European law. The ontology framework is designed to help professionals study the meaning of national and European legal terms and how they inter-relate in the transposition of European Directives into national laws. The structure and user interface of ELTS is suitable for building multi-lingual, multi-jurisdictional legal ontologies in a bottom-up and collaborative manner, starting from the description of legal terms by legal experts. It also takes into account the interpretation of norms, the dynamic character of norms and the contextual character of legal concepts in that they are linked to their legal sources (legislation, case law and doctrine).
international conference on conceptual modeling | 2014
Sepideh Ghanavati; Llio Humphreys; Guido Boella; Luigi Di Caro; Livio Robaldo; Leendert W. N. van der Torre
With an increase in regulations, it is challenging for organizations to identify relevant regulations and ensure that their business processes comply with legal provisions. Multiple regulations cover the same domain and can interact with, complement or contradict each other. To overcome these challenges, a systematic approach is required. This paper proposes a thorough approach integrating the Eunomos knowledge and document management system with Legal-URN framework, a Requirements Engineering based framework for business process compliance).
international symposium on artificial intelligence | 2015
Livio Robaldo; Llio Humphreys; Xin Sun; Loredana Cupi; Cristiana Santos; Robert Muthuri
In this paper, we propose a new approach to formalize real-world obligations that may be found in existing legislation. Specifically, we propose to formalize real-world obligations by combining insights of two logical frameworks: Input/Output logic, belonging to the literature in deontic logic and normative reasoning, and the Reification-based approach of Jerry R. Hobbs, belonging to the literature in Natural Language Semantics. The present paper represents the first step of the ProLeMAS project, whose main goal is the one of filling the gap between the current logical formalizations of legal text, mostly propositional, and the richness of Natural Language Semantics.