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Application of Legal Ontologies Based Approaches for Procedural Side of Public Administration

A Case Study in Hungary

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A case study is described about a “Knowledge Warehouse” that stored originally a vast amount of texts about laws and other legal rules in spreadsheet-like structure; it permitted a full-text search to support public officers to give helping hand in various Life Events of citizens. The requirements for efficiency and effectiveness enforced a redesign and re-planning of the whole system. A preliminary conceptual design and a proof of concept prototype are developed that exploits the most recent database technologies with combination of ontologies and Description Logic.

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  1. Information Technology Foundation of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly-Thege út 29-33, Budapest, 1121, Hungary

    Bálint Molnár

  2. Information Systems Department, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    András Béleczki & András Benczúr

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  1. Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Andrea Kő

  2. Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

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Molnár, B., Béleczki, A., Benczúr, A. (2016). Application of Legal Ontologies Based Approaches for Procedural Side of Public Administration. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44159-7_10

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