Abstract:

Literally, the difficulty in understanding legal information has been widely acknowledged for ages. It is always written and phrased in a manner which is difficult for a layman to understand. This situation becomes even worse with the overload of legal information. Its amount is too substantial that the job of finding and retrieving the right and applicable piece of information has become very cumbersome. The incomprehensibility and overloading of legal information signify a challenge that has to be addressed by legal designers and managers. This paper will provide a general overview on how knowledge representation and search, which have their origin in the roots of Knowledge Management (KM), can help to improve these issues. Specifically, knowledge representation will help users to better digest legal information while knowledge search will provide them with the capability to retrieve and find the necessary information.