Text-based Legal Ontology Enrichment

The acquisition of knowledge from text is an incomplete and incre- mental process. When anchored to a particular knowledge model it provides po- tentially useful information to the legal expert in the form of new concepts and relations, in order to improve the domain coverage. This paper explores the fea- sibility of various legal text-based ontology enrichment techniques, and dis- cusses the transformation of lexical knowledge to an ontological structure.