Lynx: Compliance made easy ManyLaws workshop JURIX2019, Groningen, NL, 12th December 2018

1. Building the Legal Knowledge Graph
for Smart Compliance Services in Multilingual Europe
http://lynx-project.eu/
Lynx
Compliance made easy
ManyLaws workshop
JURIX2019, Groningen, NL, 12th December 2018

2. FACTS
Grant Agreement number: 780602
ICT14-2016-2017 Innovation action - Horizon 2020
Pillar: Industrial Leadership
Work Programme Year: H2020-2016-2017
Work Programme Part: Information and Communication Technologies
TOPIC : Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation
Duration: 36 months
Starting date: 1st December 2017
Estimated Project Cost: €3,638,065.00
Requested EU Contribution: €2,959,247.52
Project Officer: Johan BODENKAMP

3. WHO & WHERE

5. BACKGROUND
SMEs and large corporations face multiple constraints to trade in
the EU and to localize their products and services, due to…
legal silos and linguistic islands
European
SMEs

6. BACKGROUND
Companies wishing to operate in a new market must:
• Comply with applicable legislation (European, national,
regional, local)
• Implement different standards (e.g., ISO, AENOR, DIN)
• Follow sector-specific practices
European SMEs

7. ENVISIONED SOLUTION
Legal resources
International
Standards
Language
resources
Open
Data
Private
documents
Vocabularies
Indexed documents
Legal Knowledge Graph
Smart Services for Compliance
search, linking, recommender, semantic annotation, extraction, translation, summarization, recommender
Annotation
Linking
Translation
data source specific importers
Pilot 1: Data protection
Pilot 2: Oil, gas, energy
Pilot 3: Labour law
Professional access
Specific access and data integration
Developer access
Freemium HTTP Rest API
Public access
Open documents, simple interface

8. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
European Directives
General legal goals for every
European Member State
National Legislation
Every Member State has
different national and
regional legislation in force
European Regulations
Legislative act binding in every
European Member State
Industry standards
Technical documents in
occasions necessary to
achieve certification
Case law
Judgements,
sentences

9. t 1: Contract management and data protection
Contract processing is costful for big companies in terms of time and money.
How to process contracts in a fast and efficient manner?
Which clauses are senstive regarding data protection?

10. Pilot 2: Labour law
Labor law is different in every country in Europe.
Spanish company opens new factory in Germany.
How are the equivalent norms there?
Which kind of protections should my workers use?

11. Pilot 3: Geothermal industry standards
Lack of globally agreed standards, guidelines or codes in the
geothermal domain. Regulatory sources can differ across regions, be
in different languages, and be less or more integrated in regulatory
regimes of adjacent domains.
Given a new energy, which
Technical Standards should I
comply with?
… how to compare with
adjacent domains?

12. CONTACTS
CONSORTIUM
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Lynx Coordinator
Ontology Engineering Group, UPM
+34-91-336-3670/7414
emontiel@fi.upm.es