1.
BUILDING THE LEGAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
FOR SMART COMPLIANCE SERVICES IN
MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
http://lynx-project.eu/
Lynx - Compliance made easy
Legal Knowledge Graph for Multilingual Compliance Services
Webinar: Lynx overall introduction
10/12/2020, 10.30am-11.30am CET

2.
Agenda
• The Lynx project - 10’
Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Lynx project lead, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• A Knowledge Graph: What is this & what is it good for - 10’
Martin Kaltenböck, Lynx Innovation Manager, Co-Founder and CFO of Semantic Web Company, SWC
• The Lynx Legal Knowledge Graph Model - 10’
Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Lynx Scientific Manager, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• 3 Pilots of Lynx: labor law, contract mgnt, geothermal energy - 10’
Christian Sageder, Managing Director, Cybly GmbH
• Lynx Services Platform (LySP): Architecture & Services - 10’
Artem Revenko, Director of Research & Innovation, SWC
• Questions & Answers - 10’

3.
The Lynx project
ICT14-2016-2017 (IA) Innovation action
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: 40 months
Starting date: 1st December 2017
Estimated Project Cost: €3,638,065.00
Requested EU Contribution: €2,959,247.52
Project Officer: Johan BODENKAMP/Pierre-Paul SONDAG

4.
The Lynx consortium

5.
Our Aim

6.
Our Mission
Smart services
to better manage
compliance
LKG of
European legal
and regulatory
open data
Multilingual and
multijurisdictional
data

7.
Our Pilots
Contracts Analysis Labour Law Geothermal Energy
Compliance

8.
Legal Knowledge Graph
“
Graphs form the
foundation of data fabrics
and knowledge graphs,
explainable AI and can
accelerate ML and AI
model performance.
Top 10 Trends in
Data and Analytics,
2020
Gartner Inc.
(Rita Sallam et al.)
What Is Driving the Top 10 Data & Analytics Technology Trends?

9.
Why Knowledge Graphs - what’s the problem?
1. Knowledge graphs (KGs)
bring unstructured and
structured data together.
2. KGs are the ultimate
linking engine for
(enterprise) data
management.
3. KGs automatically generate
unified views of
heterogeneous and initially
unconnected data sources,
such as Customer 360.
4. KGs provide reusable data
sets to be used in analytics
platforms or to train machine
learning algorithms.
5. KGs help with the
dismantling of data silos. A
semantic data fabric is the
basis for more detailed
analyses.
6. Knowledge graphs are an
efficient way to work
together.

10.
What is an (Enterprise) Knowledge Graph (EKG)?
An Enterprise Knowledge Graph
(EKG) contains business objects and
topics that are closely linked,
classified, semantically enriched,
and connected to existing data and
documents.

11.
“
Poor data quality is the
unintended
consequence of data
silos and poor data &
analytics governance*
*GARTNER, INC: ‘THINK BIG, START SMALL, BE PREPARED — MASTER DATA
MANAGEMENT’, SALLY PARKER AND SIMON WALKER, OCTOBER 2019
Knowledge Graphs are Infrastructure

12.
The Knowledge Graph Cookbook
▸ What are the three core principles of semantic
AI—FAIR, XAI, HITL—and how they fit together?
▸ What are the ingredients, various roles,
techniques, and basic recipes in order to cook a
knowledge graph?
▸ How to get started with your knowledge graph
project?
▸ What is a data catalog and a semantic data
fabric—and how can you benefit from them?
▸ How could the future of knowledge technologies
and AI—in a post-corona society—look like?

13.
The Knowledge Graph Cookbook
▸ 1st
edition, available from April 2020
▸ Available in 3 versions
• Free PDF
• Kindle edition (EUR 9.99 or )
• Paperback
▸ Based on more than 20 years of industry
experience
▸ 256 pages (7 chapters + addendum)
▸ 49 infographics
▸ 177 bibliographic references
▸ 11 Expert interviews

14.
The Legal Knowledge Graph
How to represent multilingual, multijurisdictional annotated
documents from different domains (law, standards…)? Before Lynx….
Identification and description:
- ELI in EU and some member states
- Different identifiers in other member states
- Different for non-legislation
Content structuring:
- CEN Metalex, Akoma Ntoso (LegalDocML) in some
countries
- AKN4EU still draft, different formats for other
legislations
- ... and for other document types
Annotations:
- NIF prevailing, no consisting JSON-LD described

15.
The Legal Knowledge Graph
The idea of Lynx document:
• One single data structure
• Data model is the LKG ontology
• Able to be validated with RDF Shapes
• Standard JSON-LD version
• Annotated with NIF

16.
The Legal Knowledge Graph

17.
The Legal Knowledge Graph
Beyond …
• Graph of documents
• ...linked to terminological data
• ...linked to other local entities
• ...linked to other external entities
http://lynx-project.eu/doc/lkg

18.
Pilots
• Geothermal Energy Compliance, DNV.GL
• Labor law, Cuatrecasas
• Contract Analysis, Cybly

19.
Geothermal Energy Compliance
• Problem space
• fragmented landscape of sources (legislation and regulations) in
multiple languages
• changing regulation
• Solution space
• demonstrate how comprehensive legal taxonomies, help the user to
find and select relevant regulatory documents
• semantic similarity between the user's document and the collected
documents
• improve the accessibility and discoverability of data

20.
Labor Law
• Problem space
• fragmented landscape of sources (legislation and regulations) in
multiple languages (in the labour domain)
• changing regulation
• Solution space
• demonstrate how search and Q&A can help the user to find the
correct answer to a legal question

21.
Contract Analysis
• Problem space
• spreaded information of contract related information within companies
in different formats and systems / locations
• Solution space
• harvesting documents in different formats, eg. pdf, doc, email
• demonstrate how annotations, help the user to find and select
relevant documents
• arrange documents in multiple dimensions
• improve the discoverability of documents

22.
LySP Services
16 Services:
• 7 Enrichment
• 5 Annotation
• 2 Conversion
• 4 Search and Information Retrieval
• 2 Vocabulary
• 3 Platform
https://lynx-project.eu/doc/api/

23.
Annotation Services

24.
Conversion Services

25.
Search and Information Retrieval

26.
Vocabulary Services

27.
Platform Services

28.
https://medium.com/semantic-tech-hotspot/lynx-service-platform-architecture-ac8d88c754f6
LYNX SERVICES
PLATFORM
(LySP)

29.
Key Principles
1. Token-based OAuth2 protocol for authorization together with the
centralized access control and authorization rules management based
on Keycloak,
2. LynxDocument schema,
3. Containerized deployment in an orchestrated application platform,
4. Workflow manager based on Camunda,
5. LinkedDataPlatform-inspired document manager,
6. Common rules for the development of web APIs — REST + API
gateway patterns.

30.
Lynx Webinar Series
• Webinar 1: Lynx overall introduction
When: 10.12.2020, 10.30am CET (1 hour)
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6724354041352177932
• Webinar 2: 3 Business Cases on top of the Lynx Legal Knowledge Graph
When: 14.1.2021, 10.30am CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3694859758021614093
• Webinar 3: The Lynx Services Platform (LySP) - Part 1: Overview
When: 11/02/2021, 11.30am CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5556043772288317453
• Webinar 4: The Lynx Services Platform (LySP) - Part 2: The Services
When: 18/02/2021, 10.30am CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6255506890391068941
• Final Event: Lynx - Compliance made easy
When: 17/03/2020; 09.30 - 12.00pm CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1747701631044349709

31.
CONTACTS
CONSORTIUM
Please raise your
Questions now….
http://lynx-project.eu/
CONSORTIUM

32.
VISION
LySP makes compliance easy for SMEs and large corporations in
their internationalisation efforts, by leveraging and interlinking
European legal and regulatory open data and incorporating a set
of cross-sectoral, cross-lingual digital services.

33.
MISSION
Provide an ecosystem of smart cloud services to make
compliance easy, based on a Legal Knowledge Graph

34.
TESTIMONIALS
“The Lynx project touches upon an important and
emerging topic demonstrated through a very high
engagement rate of our audience. The way the geothermal
sector deals with data and information will be key for
actual geothermal development on the ground.”
Gregor Rumberg, Technical Director International Geothermal Association