In this paper we attempt to give an account of reasoning with legal cases contextualised within a general theory of persuasion in practical reasoning. We begin by presenting our g...
Katie Greenwood, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter M...
Effective retrieval of court decisions is important. Automatically identifying legal concepts in the decision texts would be very helpful. In this paper we investigate how a stat...
SHYSTER-MYCIN combines a case-based legal expert system (SHYSTER) with a rule-based expert system (MYCIN) to form a hybrid legal expert system. MYCIN’s reporting has been improv...
Thomas A. O'Callaghan, James Popple, Eric McGreath
In recent years, practical applications of legal knowledge-based systems have become increasingly common. This raises the issue of their functioning in practice and their actual in...
Name matching—recognizing when two different strings are likely to denote the same entity—is an important task in many legal information systems, such as case-management syste...