Abstract—This article presents a middle-out approach to
build legal domain reference ontology for a Legal Knowledge
Based System (LKBS). The proposed approach is a combination
of top-down and bottom-up strategies. In particular, we propose
to develop legal domain reference ontology, splitted into
modules or fragments, based on merging two processes:
Conceptual Modeling Process, by reusing foundational
ontologies (top-down strategy) and Ontology Learning Process
from textual resources (bottom-up strategy).
Index Terms—Conceptual modeling, domain reference
ontology, legal ontology, modularization, ontology learning.
M. El Ghosh and H. Abdulrab were with the National Institute of Applied
Sciences, Rouen, France. They are now with the Department of
Mathematical and Software Engineering, France (email:
mirna.elghosh@insa-rouen.fr, abdulrab@insa-rouen.fr).
H. Naja was with the Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon. She is now
with the Department of Computer Science, France (email:
hala.naja70@gmail.com).
M. K. is with the Lebanese University, Doctoral School, Tripoli, Lebanon
(email: mohamad.khalil@ul.edu.lb).
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Cite: M. El Ghosh, H. Naja, H. Abdulrab, and M. Khalil, "Towards a Middle-out Approach for Building Legal Domain Reference Ontology," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 109-114, 2016.
