The use of ontologies is today widely spread across many different domains. The main effort today is, with the development of Semantic Web, to make them available across the Internet community with the purpose of reuse. The legal domain has also been explored concerning ontologies, both on the general as on the sub-domain level. In this paper are explored problems of formal ontology development regarding areas in specific legislation acts that are understated or unequally described across the act — popularly said: loopholes in the law. An example of such a problematic act is shown. For ontology implementation, a well-known tool, Protégé, is used. The ontology is made in formal way, using PAL — Protégé Axiom Language, for expressing constraints, where needed. Ontology is evaluated using known evaluation methods.
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Lovrenčić, S., Tomac, I.J., Mavrek, B. (2009). Legal Ontologies and Loopholes in the Law. In: Machado, J.A.T., Pátkai, B., Rudas, I.J. (eds) Intelligent Engineering Systems and Computational Cybernetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8678-6_8
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