arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (05/18/85)
From: George Cross <cross%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> ======================================================== 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. ======================================================= Please contact Charles Walter for further information He is not on the net.