cross%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (04/02/84)
From: Georgp R. Cross <cross%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> We are developing a model of the Louisiana Civil Code The representation language is called ANF (atomically Normalized Form) and is being used to develop the conceptual retrieval and reasoning system CCLIPS (Civil Code Legal Information Processing System). Some references are: deBessonet, C.G., Hintze, S.J., and Waller, W., "Automated Retrieval of Information: Toward the Development of a Formal Language for Expressing Statutes, Southern University Law Review, 6(1), 1-14, 1979. deBessonet, C.G., "A Proposal for Developing the Structural Science of Codification," Rutgers Journal of Computers, Technology and the Law, 1(8), 47-63, 1980. deBessonet, C.G., "An Automated Approach to Scientific Codification," Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, 9(1), 27-75, 1982. deBessonet, C.G. "An Automated Intelligent System Based on a Model of a Legal System," Rutgers Journal of Computers, Technology, and the Law, 10, to appear, 1983. Technical Reports: 83-011 Formalization of Legal Information 83-023 Natural Language Generation for a Legal Reasoning System 83-002 Processing and Representing Statutory Formalisms 84-006 Representation of Some Aspects of Legal Causality 83-005 Representation of Legal Knowledge Copies of the above Technical Reports may be requested from <techrep%lsu@csnet-relay> or from Technical Reports Secretary Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020 George R. Cross Cary G. deBessonet <cross%lsu@csnet-relay> <debesson%lsu@csnet-relay>