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dc.creatorFreitas,Fred
dc.creatorCandeias Jr,Zacharias
dc.creatorStuckenschmidt,Heiner
dc.date2011-04-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-25T12:41:32Z
dc.date.available2019-04-25T12:41:32Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-18762011000100008
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/61120
dc.descriptionOfficial documents, and particularly legal ones like law codes, often contain ambiguities and/or inconsistencies, due to linguistic problems like polysemy, as well as ontological problems like underspecification, disagreements and/or false agreements. Such problems can be identified by formalizing the terminology of a domain in terms of an ontology. We show this phenomenon in a particular domain, the definition of different classes of vehicles. Defining accurately these different vehicle types shed light on some of these semantic deficiencies present in two Brazilian legal codes responsible for defining vehicles’ categories in an unambiguous manner for many purposes, e.g. tax calculations, and, more importantly, to make e-government systems interoperate while taking laws into account in a Semantic Web scenario. In this work, we define a framework linking the linguistic and conceptual problems to semantic deficiencies and show how these deficiencies were identified during the vehicles’ ontology construction.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Talca
dc.relation10.4067/S0718-18762011000100008
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceJournal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research v.6 n.1 2011
dc.subjectOntology-based analysis of texts
dc.subjectSemantic deficiencies
dc.subjectVehicles
dc.subjectE-government
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectOntology engineering
dc.titleTowards Checking Laws’ Consistency through Ontology Design: The Case of Brazilian Vehicles’ Laws


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