THE e-Compliance research project has
announced the arrival of its Maritime thesaurus and ontology, designed to help
draft, formulate and understand maritime sea law, reports London's Digital Ship.
Partly funded by the EU, e-Compliance aims to integrate
maritime law produced by various bodies using a thesaurus and ontology as the
basis to develop semantic technologies for searching, drafting and annotating
sea law.
The thesaurus contains a large number of terms which are
frequently used in maritime law, distinguishing between a "preferred
label" and "alternative labels" thereby encouraging the use of
official terms like "vessel" rather than "boat".
The ontology will act as a data structure to model in the
creation of maritime regulations and aims to capture the meaning of laws in a
computer-readable fashion.
While known in philosophy as a branch of metaphysics, in
information technology an "ontology" is the working model of entities
and interactions within a particular domain of knowledge.
Thus in maritime law, the ontology breaks down
regulations into classes, then labels the target subject, "tankers",
let's say, and the context and circumstances in which the rule applies,
"at sea", for example. And then the requirement that must be engaged,
for example, "automatic identification system [AIS]".
Using this structure, the regulation "tankers at sea
must have AIS engaged" could be stored in a computer-readable format,
according to e-Compliance, which would give software a basic understanding of
legal texts.
The technology will rely on the existing content
enrichment system Luxid, built by e-Compliance partner Temis, and will be
configured specifically for the maritime domain.
Source : HKSG.
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