On Capturing Legal Knowledge in Ontology and Process Models Combined.

In this paper, we explore conceptual modeling as a means to improve the explicit representation of key aspects of a legal procedure. We employ in tandem an ontology-based structural conceptual model and a behavioral process model as complementary views on a legal subject matter. We examine as a case a specific type of appeal in the Brazilian legal system and establish a correspondence between elements in the models and fragments of the specific norms on which they are grounded. These correspondences are expressed with identifiers using the Brazilian LexML identification scheme.