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2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Computational Account of Persuasion in Law
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...
ICAIL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Concept Extraction from Legal Cases: The Use of a Statistic of Coincidence
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...
Marie-Francine Moens, Roxana Angheluta
ICAIL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
SHYSTER-MYCIN: A Hybrid Legal Expert System
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
ICAIL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The use of legal knowledge-based systems in public administration: what can go wrong?
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...
Hugo de Bruin, Henry Prakken, Jörgen S. Svens...
ICAIL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparative Evaluation of Name-Matching Algorithms
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...
Karl Branting