A scheme of criminal law knowledge acquisition using ontology

Abstract

This paper proposes an acquisition schema of Thai criminal code. Since the application of criminal law concerns many legal elements in the written code, it causes the misinterpretation and the wrong conclusion for the legal case. Our acquisition scheme attached with a knowledge base is designed and developed in order to facilitate users and make better understanding. The legal domain expertise is extracted using the law interpretation technique and represented by ontology written in RDF/OWL elements. The acquisition rules are defined using SWRL in order to map a knowledge base with the related criminal code.