European small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) as well as large corporations--whether already operating internationally or seeking to branch out to other countries and markets-- face multiple constraints to engage in trade abroad and to localise their products and services to other countries, mainly as a consequence of legal and language barriers. Lynx will provide more effective ways of accessing huge amounts of digital regulatory compliance documents, including legislation, case law, standards, industry norms and best practices. In particular, this solution envisages an ecosystem of smart cloud services to better manage compliance documents, based on a Legal Knowledge Graph which integrates and links heterogeneous compliance data sources.

1. Building the Legal Knowledge Graph
for Smart Compliance Services in Multilingual Europe
http://lynx-project.eu/
Lynx Overview
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
1 December 2017

2. FACTSHEET
• 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 Technology
• Big Data PPP
cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation
• Duration: 36 months
• Starting date: December 1, 2017
• Project Cost: €3,638,065.00
• EU Contribution: €2,959,247.52
• Project Officer: Johan Bodenkamp

3. WHO & WHERE

4. BACKGROUND
• SMEs and large corporations face multiple constraints to trade in
the EU and to localize their products and services
• The reason is due mainly to legal and language barriers across
Europe
• Europe is fragmented into legal silos and linguistic islands
(which intensifies when reaching out worldwide)
• 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
• Thus, dealing with legal and regulatory compliance data is a
cumbersome task delegated to expert legal and consultancy firms

5. CURRENTLY
Institutions maintain or publish their documents and data sources
• in different formats
• by different criteria
• in different languages

6. OBJECTIVES
• Provide more effective ways to access huge amounts of digital
regulatory compliance documents – including legislation, case
law, standards, industry norms and best practices.
• Develop an ecosystem of smart cloud services based on a
Legal Knowledge Graph that integrates and links
heterogeneous compliance data sources.
• Enable smart search, smart assistance and smart referencing
of case law, as well as artificial intelligence technologies and
machine translation of regulatory compliance documents.
• Offer a legal information & knowledge one-stop shop service.

7. TASKS
1. Acquisition
2. Integration
3. Exploitation

8. 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

9. 9
ACQUISITION
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 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

10. 10
INTEGRATION
Linking services Language services Information retrieval
services
Extraction Translation Intelligence search
Annotation Summarisation Document
comparison
Interlinking Recommendation and
Alert service
Disambiguation
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

11. 11
EXPLOITATION

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