PROLOG-REQUEST@SUSHI.STANFORD.EDU (Chuck Restivo, The Moderator) (03/17/87)
PROLOG Digest Wednesday, 18 Mar 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Announcement - Conference on Law
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 87 19:09:23 EST
From: hafner%corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Conference on AI and Law - Program and Registration Info
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by: The Center for Law and Computer Science
Northeastern University
Schedule of Activities:
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Wednesday, May 27
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Tutorials
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (see list below)
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Welcoming Reception - NU Faculty Center
Thursday and Friday, May 28-29
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (continued)
Thursday evening, May 28 - 7:00 p.m. - Gala Banquet at the Colonnade Hotel
Tutorials:
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A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (For Lawyers)." Edwina L. Rissland
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, will
present the fundamentals of AI from the perspective of a legal expert.
B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities and Challenges."
Donald H. Berman, Richardson Professor of Law, and Carole D. Hafner,
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University, will
survey the past accomplishments and current goals of research in AI and Law.
Panels:
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"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal System." Moderated by
Cary G. deBessonet, Director of the Law and Artificial Intelligence Project,
Louisiana State Law Institute.
"Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational Approaches."
Moderated by L. Thorne McCarty, Professor of Computer Science and Law, Rutgers
University.
List of Research Presentations: (final schedule is not yet determined)
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"Expert Systems in Law: The Datalex Project"
Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray, Alan L. Tyree
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
"The Application of Expert Systems Technology to Case-Based Law"
J.C. Smith, Cal Deedman
Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, CANADA
"Legal Reasoning in 3-D"
Marvin Belzer
Advanced Computational Methods Center
University of Georgia, USA
"Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate Planning"
Dean A. Schlobohm, Donald A. Waterman
Moraga, California, USA
"Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and into the
Marketplace"
Richard E. Susskind
Ernst & Whinney
London, ENGLAND
"An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for the
Internal Revenue Service"
Gary Grady, Ramesh S. Patil
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System"
Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas, Gregory J. Crowe
Advanced Decision Systems
Mountain View, California USA
"Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law"
Judith P. Dick
Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
"A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning"
D. Peter O'Neill
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
"Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases"
Carole D. Hafner
The Center for Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts USA
"A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law"
Edwina L. Rissland Kevin D. Ashley
Department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts USA
"But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO"
Kevin D. Ashley, Edwina L. Rissland
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts USA
"A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information Retrieval"
Richard K. Belew
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Univ. of California
San Diego, California USA
"System = Program + Programmers + Law"
Naftaly H. Minsky, David Rozenshtein
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey USA
"A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System Project for Consultation
and Tutoring -- The LEX Project"
F. Haft, R.P. Jones, Th. Wetter
IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre
Heidelberg, WEST GERMANY
"Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text in the SPADES
System"
Gary Morris, Keith Taylor, Maury Harwood
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption Analyst"
Keith Bellairs
Management Science Department, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
"Reasoning about `Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law
Steven Weiner
Somerville, Massachusetts USA
"Designing Text Retrieval Systems for `Conceptual Searching'"
Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law
Oslo, NORWAY
"Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with the Aid of
Logical Models"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
"Further Comments on McCarty's Semantics for Deontic Logic"
Andrew J.I. Jones
University of Oslo
Oslo, NORWAY
"Experiments Using Expert Systems Technology for Teaching Law: Special
Knowledge Representation Approaches in DEFAULT and EVAN"
Roger D. Purdy
School of Law, The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio USA
"OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for Defeasible Reasoning"
Thomas F. Gordon
FS-INFRE, GMD
Sankt Augustin, WEST GERMANY
"ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing Statutes"
Carlo Biogioli, Paola Mariana, Daniela Tiscornia
Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica
Florence, ITALY
"A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada"
David M. Sherman
Maintnix Services
Thornhill, Ontario CANADA
"Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal Reasoning"
Layman E. Allen, Charles S. Saxon
Law School, The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
"Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition in Contract Law:
A Process Model"
Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California USA
"Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law: A Formalism of
Supplementary Benefit Legislation"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen, M.J. Sergot
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
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Program Committee Conference Information
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L.Thorne McCarty, Chair Prof. Carole D. Hafner, Conference Chair
Donald H. Berman (617) 437-5116
Michael G. Dyer Ms. Rita Laffey, Registration
Edwina L. Rissland (617) 437-3346
Marek J. Sergot
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