Construction of a Legal Ontology from a European Community Legislative Text
Résumé
This paper describes the construction of an application ontology around the concept of EMPLOYEE in a European community legislation text. Firstly, the TERMINAE method is presented. Then it is shown how the text contributes to the building of this ontology. Afterward the use of a top level ontology as DOLCE and of a legal ontology as LRI-Core are detailed. The essential points of this study are: the application of the TERMINAE method to the legal domain and its alignment to core ontologies.