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This paper tries to lay the basis for a procedural model that could contribute to improve the interoperability of legal ontologies. At the same time it focuses on critical points of current use of legal ontologies due to the fact that often the practice of law is disregarded.
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The ICT4LAW project, “ICT Converging on Law: Next Generation Services for Citizens, Enterprises, Public Administration and Policymakers”, is a Converging Technologies 2007 project funded by Regione Piemonte.
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We disregard the possibility of conceptual ambiguity among the different translations of a Directive in the different languages. Alas, such assumption is not always true, and there can be conceptual differences already in the different linguistic versions of the same directive.
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Boella, G., Rossi, P. (2011). The Multi-Layered Legal Information Perspective. In: Sartor, G., Casanovas, P., Biasiotti, M., Fernández-Barrera, M. (eds) Approaches to Legal Ontologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0120-5_8
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