Alves, Isa Mara da Rosa [UNESP]Chishman, Rove Luiza de OliveiraTorres, Paulo MiguelQuaresma, Duarte2014-05-272014-05-272007-08-24Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, p. 93-94.http://hdl.handle.net/11449/69826The need for the representation of both semantics and common sense and its organization in a lexical database or knowledge base has motivated the development of large projects, such as Wordnets, CYC and Mikrokosmos. Besides the generic bases, another approach is the construction of ontologies for specific domains. Among the advantages of such approach there is the possibility of a greater and more detailed coverage of a specific domain and its terminology. Domain ontologies are important resources in several tasks related to the language processing, especially in those related to information retrieval and extraction in textual bases. Information retrieval or even question and answer systems can benefit from the domain knowledge represented in an ontology. Besides embracing the terminology of the field, the ontology makes the relationships among the terms explicit. Copyright 2007 ACM.93-94engDatabase systemsInformation retrievalInformation retrieval systemsKnowledge based systemsKnowledge representationSemanticsJuridical ontologyLexical databaseTextual basesOntologyTrabalho apresentado em evento10.1145/1276318.1276335Acesso aberto2-s2.0-34548027507