The main achievements of the Lynx project can be summarised as follows:
1) A multilingual legal knowledge graph (LKG) that integrates data and documents from multiple jurisdictions, in various languages, as well as open standards and sectorial best practice guidelines. The original documents are transformed into a homogeneous format according to the data model defined by the Legal Knowledge Graph Ontology. For this purpose, more than 30 harvesters and a so-called curation workflow have been set in place to “ingest” documents, that is, to collect documents, enrich them with annotations (named entities, temporal expressions, entity relations, etc.), and make them ready for consumption.
2) A CKAN-based Lynx Data Portal to document datasets of interest for the regulatory domains, published according to the FAIR data principles proposed by the EC. Multilingual terminologies and lexical data resources have been created and/or made available to Lynx business cases in Semantic Web formats to easy their integration and reuse.
3) The implementation of the Lynx Services Platform (LynxSP), an online platform that provides the usage of (a) single and standalone or (b) piped/orchestrated Lynx services (in total 16 services in place) that can be ordered/used as Software as a Service (Cloud Services). Such services allow a unified treatment of Lynx data and documents, and cover the following functionalities: Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation (WSID), Dictionary Access (DA), Terminology Extraction (TermEx), Name Entity Recognition (NER), Temporal Expression Extraction (TimEx), Geographical Entity Recognition (Geo), Relation Extraction (RelEx), Entity Extraction (EntEx), Cross-lingual search (Sear), Question Answering (QADoc), Semantic Similarity (SeSim), Terminology Query (TermQ), Summarization (Summ), and Neural Machine Translation (Trans). Using standard practices, these services are well documented (OpenAPI), secured (OAuth), containerized (Docker) and managed (OpenShift).
4) Three pilot applications:“Pilot 1: Contract Analysis”, whose goal is automated contract analysis and contract archiving; “Pilot 2: Geothermal Energy”, mainly centered on the efficient access and comparison of regulations and industry practices in the energy sector in Europe; and “Pilot 3: Labour Law”, focused on an efficient access to cross-lingual and cross-jurisdictional data.
5) A website with a summary of project objectives and links to publications and project results has been created and is mantained. Also, a Zenodo community has been created were all deliverables, scientific publications and datasets are openly available.
6) Organisation of events for academia and industry in order to to disseminate project results (TeReCom workshop series, JURIX Industry Event). A series of Webinars has been organised and videos have been made available in a YouTube channel.
7) An important and ongoing commercialization effort. Project results have been pitched to companies outside the consortium and to clients of Lynx partners to perform initial market validations. Business and pricing models have been designed with a focus on a Business to Business model. A sustainability plan for Lynx Services has been developed to support the exploitation plans through the European Language Grid platform.
