IndiLegalOnt: An Ontology for the Indian Legal System

Author : Apurv Dube, Joseph Pookkatt, Raghava Mutharaju, Vikram Goyal

This paper reflects on the approach of develop an ontology specific to Indian courts and regulations. This is done by Integrating GeoNames location and linking it to the Indian courts on the Staram India specific ontology. For doing so we reuse and extend existing ontologies like SALI-LMSS, GeoNames, etc. . In the instant approach we have extracted information from GeoNames* web API for Location Data and Courts to build on approaches to Bad Check Crime Modelling. A general purpose Java library using OWL API was written for the purpose of making these additions.

  • Creating class structures
  • Object, data & annotation properties
  • Searching etc.
  • Data for about 25 high courts and 688 district courts was added.
  • 104 government ministries and departments was also added
  • Integrating location data including states, districts and cities in India.