An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning (Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning)

@book{lieth-gardner1987artificial, abstract = {{Law and legal reasoning are a natural target for artificial intelligence systems. Like medical diagnosis and other tasks for expert systems, legal analysis is a matter of interpreting data in terms of higher-level concepts. But in law the data are more like those for a system aimed at understanding natural language: they tell a story about human events that may lead to a lawsuit. Statements of the law, too, are written in natural language and legal arguments are often arguments about what that language means or ought to mean.<br /> <br /> This study is one of the few research efforts in this fertile area. It is unique in developing a computational model for analyzing legal problems in a way that brings these strands of AI research together and makes sense from a jurisprudential perspective as well.<br /> <br /> Gardner first analyzes several positions in Anglo-American jurisprudence and their relevance for work in artificial intelligence. She identifies aspects of legal reasoning that any truly expert system in law must make a place for and suggests a way of decomposing the process of legal analysis that takes these aspects into account. She compares the resulting framework with those used by other legal analysis programs. A solid exposition of current AI techniques follows in chapters covering the author's system (written in Maclisp) for offer and acceptance problems, taken from law examinations, involved in contract law.<br /> <br /> Anne von der Lieth Gardner has a law degree and a Ph.D. in computer science, both from Stanford University. <i>An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning</i> inaugurates the series Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Processes and Models of Legal Reasoning, edited by L. Thorne McCarty and Edwina L. Rissland. A Bradford Book.}}, author = {Anne}, citeulike-article-id = {2771691}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, isbn = {0262071045}, keywords = {artificial-cognition}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2008-05-08 14:43:02}, priority = {0}, publisher = {{The MIT Press}}, title = {An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning (Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning)}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/0262071045}, year = {1987} }

TY - BOOK ID - lieth-gardner1987artificial L3 - citeulike-article-id:2771691 TI - An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning (Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning) PB - {The MIT Press} SN - 0262071045 N2 - {Law and legal reasoning are a natural target for artificial intelligence systems. Like medical diagnosis and other tasks for expert systems, legal analysis is a matter of interpreting data in terms of higher-level concepts. But in law the data are more like those for a system aimed at understanding natural language: they tell a story about human events that may lead to a lawsuit. Statements of the law, too, are written in natural language and legal arguments are often arguments about what that language means or ought to mean.<br /> <br /> This study is one of the few research efforts in this fertile area. It is unique in developing a computational model for analyzing legal problems in a way that brings these strands of AI research together and makes sense from a jurisprudential perspective as well.<br /> <br /> Gardner first analyzes several positions in Anglo-American jurisprudence and their relevance for work in artificial intelligence. She identifies aspects of legal reasoning that any truly expert system in law must make a place for and suggests a way of decomposing the process of legal analysis that takes these aspects into account. She compares the resulting framework with those used by other legal analysis programs. A solid exposition of current AI techniques follows in chapters covering the author's system (written in Maclisp) for offer and acceptance problems, taken from law examinations, involved in contract law.<br /> <br /> Anne von der Lieth Gardner has a law degree and a Ph.D. in computer science, both from Stanford University. <i>An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning</i> inaugurates the series Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Processes and Models of Legal Reasoning, edited by L. Thorne McCarty and Edwina L. Rissland. A Bradford Book.} KW - artificial-cognition AU - Anne PY - 1987/05/27/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0262071045 ER -