Towards Annotation of Legal Documents with Ontology Concepts

Abstract

This paper describes a task of semantic labeling of document segments. The idea exploits ontology in providing a fine-grained conceptual document annotation. We describe a way of dividing a document into its constituent semantically-coherent blocks. These blocks are then used to perform conceptual tagging for efficient passage information retrieval. The proposed task interfaces other application areas such as intra-mapping of ontologies, text summarization and information extraction. The system has been evaluated on a task of conceptual tagging of documents and achieved a promising result.