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| Challenge: | a legal technology system under development in the EU is based on semantic services and a multilingual legal knowledge Graph. |
| Approach: | They propose a workflow manager that enables flexible orchestration of workflows . they describe different use cases and propose prototypical solutions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is based on a set of natural language processing and document curation services and a multilingual legal knowledge graph that contains semantic information and meaningful references to legal documents. |
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