The datalex legal workstation - Integrating tools for lawyers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 215-224

  Greenleaf, Graham ^a   Mowbray, Andrew ^b   Tyree, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 85054918470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/112646.112673     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (43)

1. For brief histories: on text retrieval see G. Greenleaf, A. Mowbray & D. Lewis Australasian Computerised Legal Information Handbook, Butterworths, 1988, Chapter 4
2. or more comprehensively, J. Bing (Ed) Handbook of Legal Information Retrieval North Holland 1984 Part III;
3. on expert systems see A. Tyree Expert Systems in Law Prentice Hall 1989 Ch 1;
4. on document generators see S. M. Brooks Computerizing for Personal Productivity Butterworths, Toronto, 1989, Chapter 5;
5. on hypertext see J. Smith and S. Weiss 'Hypertext' (1988) 31 (7) Communications of the ACM p 816.
6. H. P. Frei 'The Future of Information Systems', Seminar paper, CIRCIT, Melbourne, 1990.
7. For example, P. Johnson and D. Mead's STATUTE software (Softlaw, Canberra) provides hypertext access from terms which arise in an expert systems dialogue.
8. See the papers presented at the 7th Colloquy on the use of computers in administration of justice - Integrated work stations in the legal sector and decision support systems, Council of Europe, Lisbon, 1988;
9. see also J. Bing 'The concept and design of integrated work stations for public administration'. International Council for IT in Government Administration, 22nd Conference, Estoril, 1988
10. G. Vandenberghe 'Software oracles' in H W K Kaspersen and A Oskamp (Eds) Among Friends in Computers and Law Kluwer, Deventer, 1990;
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14. J. Nielsen 'The art of navigating' Communications of the ACM (1990) Vol 33 No 3, p298
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23. Mowbray YSH Reference Manual, DataLex 1991
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31. E. L. Rissland and D. B. Skalak 'Interpeting statutory predicates' Proc. 2nd ICAIL, 1989 p46
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33. A. Berg et al 'Developing a KBS support system for handling social assistance', SAFAD Stockholm, 1988;
34. C. Stephen and H. Schreiber 'CD ROM., Hypertext and the Law' op cit
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38. J. Bing 'Designing text retrieval systems for "conceptual searching" ' Proc. 1st ICAIL p43
39. See the work of L. Allen and C. Saxon, for example 'Some problems in designing expert systems to aid legal reasoning' Proc. 1st ICAIL 1987, p94
40. and 'Computer-aided normalising and unpacking: some interesting machine-processable transformations of legal rules' in C. Walter (Ed) Computer Power and Legal Reasoning West, 1985, p495, for the difficulties inherent in such an approach.
41. See A. Galtung and D. S. Maesel 'Xcite' Proc. 2nd ICAIL 1989 p81
42. See J. Bing 'Performance of text retrieval systems: the curse of Boole' (1987) 79 Law Lib. J.
43. and L. T. McCarty 'Artificial intelligence and law: How to get there from here' Ratio Juris Vol 3 No 2 1990, p189.