arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (05/18/85)
From: George Cross <cross%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
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Second Annual Conference on Law and Technology
Theme: Legal Language, Computational Linguistics,
and Artificial Intelligence
Organizers:
Dr. Charles Walter, Director
Program on Law and Technology
University of Houston Law Center
Houston, Texas 77004
713-749-1422
713-749-4935
Dr. Sidney Lamb, Chairman
Department of Linguistics and Semiotics
Rice University
Houston, Texas
When: June 24-30, 1985
Where: University of Houston,
Houston, Texas
Goal: To stimulate research between jurists, linguists, and computer
scientists
Format: Tutorials, Research Presentations, and Workshops
(Tentative) Schedule
Tutorials:
June 24 A.M. Legal Language
June 24 P.M. Programming the Law in PROLOG
June 25 A.M. Natural Language Processing
June 25 P.M. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Original Research Papers:
June 26-June 28
Workshops:
June 28-30 Workshop Topics to be determined by Participants
Possible Sessions and Workshop Topics:
--viewing legal language as the interface between legal concepts and
computer code
--the language of justice and legal logic: Cardozo's methods of sociology
and philosophy
--semantics of legal situations
--viewing legal language as a computerizable process
--structural & cognitive analysis of legal language
--indeterminancy and uncertainty in legal language
--the role of language in reasoning
--linguistic & cognitive networks
--computer-human interactions
--understanding natural legal language
--legal document analysis & linguistic theory
--automatic representation of semantic relationships
--non-Von Neumann architectures
--parsing natural language
--the role of language in human reasoning.
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Please contact Charles Walter for further information
He is not on the net.