IndiLegalOnt: An Ontology for the Indian Legal System

Apurv Dube, Joseph Pokkatt, Raghava Mutharaju, Vikram Goyal

Keywords: Indian Legal Ontology, Legal Ontology, Legal domain, SALI

Abstract: Legal tasks require managing complex information that is primarily unstructured in nature. There is a definite need for a more structured knowledge representation that can guide both human and machine learning models when building systems that aid in processing legal matters. An ontology provides a mechanism to build cohesive, structured knowledge which can be utilized for end-tasks via multiple mechanisms. We present \emph{IndiLegalOnt}, an ontology that captures some of the aspects of the Indian legal system. We focus on reusing existing ontologies and limit the scope of this work to Indian court structures and selected regulations of the negotiable instruments act. We populate the ontology using our custom built library and evaluate it using the competency questions gathered from the domain experts. The IndiLegalOnt is available at https://github.com/kracr/indian-legal-ontology

Submission Number: 8