AGATHA: Automated construction of case law theories through heuristic search

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 45-54

  Chorley, Alison ^a   Bench Capon, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Heuristic search; Legal knowledge based systems; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION; CASE BASED; CASE LAW; EVALUATION FUNCTION; HEURISTIC SEARCH; HEURISTIC SEARCH METHODS; LEGAL KNOWLEDGE; SEARCH SPACES; THEORY CONSTRUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 77950371841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1165485.1165493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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