%0 Conference Paper %1 Breuker:04b %A Breuker, Joost %A Hoekstra, Rinke %B Proceedings of Formal Ontologies in Information Systems FOIS-2004 %D 2004 %I IOS-Press %K imported %P 210-221 %T Core concepts of law: taking common-sense seriously %X In this paper we present LRI-Core, a core ontology for covering domains of law. After a decade of developing many ontologies for legal domains and applications, the need for a unifying core ontology that covers the main concepts that are common to all legal domains became very apparent. It can be argued that not only these domains have a predominant common-sense character ? the law is still for the people ? but also that typical legal concepts such as norm, role responsibility, contract, etc. have still a grounding in abstract common-sense conceptualizations. This common sense grounding is lacking in various upper- or foundational ontologies developed thus far. The paper presents a number of design principles that follow from the common-sense stance in developing the LRI-Core: the most important being cognitive plausibility. From this perspective, knowledge about the physical world, with the central notions of object and process is taken as a basis for metaphorizing mental and abstract worlds. The intentional stance that differentiates the physical world from the mental world is also the basis for the creation of a behavioural world of roles. In summary, LRI-Core starts with four main categories: physical classes, mental classes, roles, and abstract classes. A fifth category consists of terms for occurrences, which are used to talk about instances (situations) in a generic way.

@inproceedings{Breuker:04b, abstract = {In this paper we present LRI-Core, a core ontology for covering domains of law. After a decade of developing many ontologies for legal domains and applications, the need for a unifying core ontology that covers the main concepts that are common to all legal domains became very apparent. It can be argued that not only these domains have a predominant common-sense character ? the law is still for the people ? but also that typical legal concepts such as norm, role responsibility, contract, etc. have still a grounding in abstract common-sense conceptualizations. This common sense grounding is lacking in various upper- or foundational ontologies developed thus far. The paper presents a number of design principles that follow from the common-sense stance in developing the LRI-Core: the most important being cognitive plausibility. From this perspective, knowledge about the physical world, with the central notions of object and process is taken as a basis for metaphorizing mental and abstract worlds. The intentional stance that differentiates the physical world from the mental world is also the basis for the creation of a behavioural world of roles. In summary, LRI-Core starts with four main categories: physical classes, mental classes, roles, and abstract classes. A fifth category consists of terms for occurrences, which are used to talk about instances (situations) in a generic way.}, added-at = {2007-05-31T08:53:16.000+0200}, author = {Breuker, Joost and Hoekstra, Rinke}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ed0f5d957a4df06dbd300160b5365a7e/rinkehoekstra}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Formal Ontologies in Information Systems {FOIS-2004}}, description = {Publications of the Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam}, interhash = {36b1e1013da2ae09581c65f50ea620fe}, intrahash = {ed0f5d957a4df06dbd300160b5365a7e}, keywords = {imported}, owner = {rinke}, pages = {210-221}, pdf = {http://www.leibnizcenter.org/docs/breuker/fois-2004-paper.pdf}, publisher = {IOS-Press}, timestamp = {2007-05-31T08:53:19.000+0200}, title = {Core concepts of law: taking common-sense seriously}, year = 2004 }