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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.
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Societas delinquere non potest (Savigny – nineteenth Century) was the dominant doctrine in Italian law throughout the twentieth Century. However, there were other scholarly doctrines that supported the modern point of view Societas delinquere et puniri potest.
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ICT4LAW: “ICT Converging on Law: Next Generation Services for Citizens, Enterprises, Public Administration and Policymakers” funded by Regione Piemonte 2008–2013, call Converging Technologies 2007.
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The conversion in the current version of the software is done using the XMLeges Marker tool developed by Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’ Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) of Florence (http://www.xmleges.org).
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Boella, G., Humphreys, L., Martin, M., Rossi, P., van der Torre, L., Violato, A. (2012). Eunomos, A Legal Document and Knowledge Management System for Regulatory Compliance. In: De Marco, M., Te'eni, D., Albano, V., Za, S. (eds) Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_62
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