[net.ai] Legal AI Systems

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>