Publishing and Using Legislation and Case Law as Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen; Minna  Tamper; Esko Ikkala; Sami Sarsa; Arttu Oksanen; Jouni Tuominen; Aki Hietanen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_19

Publishing and Using Legislation and Case Law as Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen, Minna Tamper, Esko Ikkala, Sami Sarsa, Arttu Oksanen, Jouni Tuominen, Aki Hietanen

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Legislation and case law are widely published on the Web as documents for humans to read. In contrast, this paper argues for publishing legal documents as Linked Open Data (LOD) on top of which intelligent legal services for end users can be created in addition to just providing the documents for close reading. To test and demonstrate this idea, we present work on creating the Linked Open Data service Semantic Finlex for Finnish legislation and case law and the semantic portal prototype LawSampo for serving end users with legal data. Semantic Finlex is a harmonized knowledge graph that is created automatically from legal textual documents and published in a SPARQL endpoint on top of which the various applications of LawSampo are implemented. First applications include faceted semantic search and browsing for 1) statutes and 2) court decisions, as well as 3) a service for finding court decisions similar to a given one or free text. A novelty of LawSampo is the provision of ready-to-use tooling for exploring and analyzing legal documents, based on the “Sampo” model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publication	ESWC 2020 Satellite Events - ESWC 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Andreas Harth, Valentina Presutti, Raphaël Troncy, Maribel Acosta, Axel Polleres, Javier D. Fernández, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Olaf Hartig, Katja Hose, Michael Cochez
Publisher	Springer
Pages	110-114
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-62327-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-62326-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_19
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Extended Semantic Web Conference - Heraklion, Greece Duration: 31 May 2020 → 4 Jun 2020 Conference number: 17

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12124
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	Extended Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated title	ESWC
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion
Period	31/05/2020 → 04/06/2020

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Hyvönen, E., Tamper, M., Ikkala, E., Sarsa, S., Oksanen, A., Tuominen, J., & Hietanen, A. (2020). Publishing and Using Legislation and Case Law as Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web. In A. Harth, V. Presutti, R. Troncy, M. Acosta, A. Polleres, J. D. Fernández, J. X. Parreira, O. Hartig, K. Hose, & M. Cochez (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events - ESWC 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 110-114). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12124). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_19

Hyvönen, Eero ; Tamper, Minna ; Ikkala, Esko et al. / Publishing and Using Legislation and Case Law as Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events - ESWC 2020, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Andreas Harth ; Valentina Presutti ; Raphaël Troncy ; Maribel Acosta ; Axel Polleres ; Javier D. Fernández ; Josiane Xavier Parreira ; Olaf Hartig ; Katja Hose ; Michael Cochez. Springer, 2020. pp. 110-114 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Hyvönen E, Tamper M, Ikkala E, Sarsa S, Oksanen A , Tuominen J et al. Publishing and Using Legislation and Case Law as Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web. In Harth A, Presutti V, Troncy R, Acosta M, Polleres A, Fernández JD, Parreira JX, Hartig O, Hose K, Cochez M, editors, The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events - ESWC 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. 2020. p. 110-114. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_19

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