Logic-based Fusion of Legal Knowledge

Philippe Besnard (1, 2) , Éric Grégoire (3) , Sébastien Ramon (3)

1 IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 CRIL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens

In this paper, we address several issues that are often overlooked in the fusion of various knowledge components when this knowledge is expressed in full standard logic. It is shown that not solving these issues can lead to inadequate inferences. As a case study, we consider the legal domain, which has been an application target for knowledge engineering for decades. Real- life examples based on the confrontation of two different legal systems about a same international agreement are investigated.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Philippe Besnard, Éric Grégoire, Sébastien Ramon. Logic-based Fusion of Legal Knowledge. 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION'12), Jul 2012, Singapour, Singapore. pp.587-592. ⟨hal-00866521⟩